“The tyranny of a prince is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.”
"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
- Montesquieu
Success
"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."
- Montesquieu
Reflection
"The less men think, the more they talk."
- Montesquieu
Wisdom
"I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve."
- Montesquieu
Self-care
"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
- Montesquieu
Philosophy
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity