Quote of Charles de Montesquieu - An author is a fool who...
Biography - Charles de Montesquieu:
French man of letters and political philosopher.
Born: 1689 - Died: 1755
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1689 - Died: 1755
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: 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 about the future:
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.
Quotes for: generation
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.
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