False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

Topics: Happiness Quotes, Sharing Quotes

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner...

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner...

Useless laws weaken necessary laws

Useless laws weaken necessary laws

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool,...

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool,...

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from...

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from...

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...

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

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

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

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

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a...

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a...

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public...

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public...

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody...

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody...

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its...

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its...

Absolutism tempered by assassination

Absolutism tempered by assassination