Charles Montesquieu Quotations

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

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.