It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

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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.

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

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

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...

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness...

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness...

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

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

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...

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

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

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

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.

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.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law...

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law...

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of...

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of...

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...

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

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;...

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...

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.