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Charles de Montesquieu

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Biography - Charles de Montesquieu:

French man of letters and political philosopher.
Born: 1689 - Died: 1755
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.



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Quotes for: future


Quotes

Quotes about the future:


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





Man is the future of man.





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.











Quotes

Quotes for: generation


Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.





Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.





The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.





When the older generation makes mistakes, the younger learns a bad lesson.











Quotes

Charles de Montesquieu also said...


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.





It is a thousand times easier to do good than to do it well.





I have ever held it as a maxim, never to do that through another, which it was possible for me to execute myself.





It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.





To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.





An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.












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