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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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,...

Useless laws weaken necessary laws

Useless laws weaken necessary laws

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...

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.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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.

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.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

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;...

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

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 empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

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.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.