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

Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

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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.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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,...

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

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...

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

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.

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.

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.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

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,...

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

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

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...