Luc de Clapiers famous quotes

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Wise #Office #Generosity

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Sad #Unhappy #Usual

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Thinking #Humanity #Compromise

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Quarrels #Unfortunate

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Time #Fame #Born

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Inspirational #Being Happy #Education

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Art #Hype #Deception

Action makes more fortune than caution.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Success #Action #Fortune

All grand thoughts come from the heart.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Work #Heart #Thinking

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Emotional #Taught #Reason

One can not be just if one is not humane.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Can Not #Humane

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Profound #Clarity #Profound Thoughts

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Lazy People #Laziness #Anxious

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Order #Mind #Body

Patience is the art of hoping.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Success #Patience #Art

The maxims of men reveal their characters.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Character #Men #Maxims

Habit is everything, even in love.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Habit

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Despair #Weakness #Misery

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Greatness #Men #Thinking

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Ambition #Men #Evil

Great men, like nature, use simple language.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Simple #Men #Use

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#War #Desire #Common

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#War #Fighting #Vices

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Life #Positive #Achieve

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Humble #People #Enough

Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Children #Independent #Pride

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Ignorance #Genius #Proof

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Life #Pain #Pleasure

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Men #Opposites #Risk

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Winter #Giving #Shining

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Men #Enthusiasm

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Hurt #Men #Fool

We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Time #Men

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Character #People #Want

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Men #Ends #Servitude

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Sleep #Mind #Indolence

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Letting Go #Struggle #Fighting

The idle always have a mind to do something.
-- Luc de Clapiers

#Mind #Laziness #Idle