Luc de Clapiers Quotes about Heart

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All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Luc de Clapiers

Work, Heart, Thinking

We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

Luc de Clapiers

Believe, Heart, Perfection

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

Luc de Clapiers

Heart, Contentment, Talent

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

Luc de Clapiers

Christian, Heart, Men

It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

Heart, Numbers, Soul

"Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.