What did Baron de Montesquieu mean by: I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France Copy
+ Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Comeback, Insult, Sexuality, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Politics, Republic, Wisdom, 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
+ Virtue is necessary to a republic. Feraz Zeid, September 30, 2023December 26, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Republic, Virtue, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Fool, Wit, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Favors, 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
+ Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. Feraz Zeid, July 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Law, Liberty, Philosophical, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
