An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The less men think, the more they talk.

The less men think, the more they talk.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him,...

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him,...

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life;...

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life;...

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions...

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions...

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient...

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient...

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without...

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without...

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the...

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the...

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have...

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have...

Liberty consists in doing what one desires

Liberty consists in doing what one desires