What did Baron de Montesquieu mean by: Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France Copy
+ To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Delight, Hours, Philosophical, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. Feraz Zeid, July 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Law, Liberty, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Defense, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin! Feraz Zeid, August 28, 2023December 24, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Empty, Praise, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Grief, Hours, Reading, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. Feraz Zeid, October 30, 2023December 26, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Luxury, Republic, Tyrants, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Virtue has needs of limits. Feraz Zeid, June 25, 2023December 12, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Limits, Virtue, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Talking, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. - Homer Poet · Greece
