An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu
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More quotes by Charles de Montesquieu
- It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
- Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
- We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
- I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
- There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.