Luc de Clapiers Quotes - Page 4

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

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

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.

Those who can bear all can dare all.

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

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

Prosperity makes few friends.

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

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.