Charles de Montesquieu

Quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

 

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

Charles de Montesquieu

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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Charles de Montesquieu

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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Charles de Montesquieu

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