I have always observed that to succeed i... by Charles de Montesquieu | We Heart Quotes

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Other quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

Want People

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

- Charles de Montesquieu

Moderation

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Friendship

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

- Charles de Montesquieu

God

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

- Charles de Montesquieu

State

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Fear

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

- Charles de Montesquieu

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