“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
More from Baron de Montesquieu
“But there is not a single person employed in any way at the court, in Paris, or in the…”
“They maintain that all unlimited power must be unlawful, because it cannot have had a…”
“Nature repairs everything.”
“We are so blind that we know neither when to mourn, nor when to rejoice; our mirth and our…”