Quotes By Luc De Clapiers

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

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Prosperity makes few friends.

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.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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.

One can not be just if one is not humane.

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

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.