Luc de Clapiers Quotes

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

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

The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Give help rather than advice.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.

All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

Consciousness of our powers augments them.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Patience is the art of hoping.

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.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

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

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

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

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him