Quotes by Montesquieu, Charles De

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they ar >>

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we >>

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. >>

Quotations about Simplicity

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simple >>

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of s >>

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be reject >>

I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Montesquieu, Charles De