Quotes By Luc De Clapiers

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

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

One can not be just if one is not humane.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Great thoughts come from the heart.

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

Prosperity makes few friends.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.