An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
The less men think the more they talk.
The less men think the more they talk.
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.
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.
To become truly great one has to stand with people not above them.
To become truly great one has to stand with people not above them.
An author is a fool who not content with boring those he lives with insists on boring future generations.
An author is a fool who not content with boring those he lives with insists on boring future generations.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
There is no nation so powerful as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason but from passion.
There is no nation so powerful as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason but from passion.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.