60 ordspråk av Charles de Montesquieu
Charles de Montesquieu
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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An absolute ruler is an undesireable leader.
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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