The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
Slander is the solace of malignity.
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
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