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Things Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
- Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the…
- The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
- [The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things…
- Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
- It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
- Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
- It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
- They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed.…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle