Baron de Montesquieu

Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

• Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

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• If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

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• Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

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• The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

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