Quotes by Montesquieu, Charles De

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long i >>

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his >>

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. >>

Quotations about Happiness

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once. >>

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. M >>

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. >>

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.

Montesquieu, Charles De