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

Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

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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.

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...

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived...

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived...

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,...

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

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.

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...

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

Justice is having and doing what is one's own

Justice is having and doing what is one's own

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the...

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the...

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment

Fear follows crime, and is its punishment