Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Writing, Attention, Care

• I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Book, Writing, Suffering

• A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

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  Writing, People, Style

• A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

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  Writing, Men, Speak

• Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Writing, Simplicity, Facts

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.456, Library of Alexandria

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