Luc de Clapiers quotes
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“It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.”
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“The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.”
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“We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.”
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“We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.”
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“You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.”
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“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”
-- Luc de ClapiersSource : "Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays". Book by Keith Stern, 2009.
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“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”
-- Luc de ClapiersSource : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.
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“Action makes more fortune than caution.”
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“All grand thoughts come from the heart.”
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“Emotions have taught mankind to reason.”
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“One can not be just if one is not humane.”
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“Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”
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“Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.”
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“You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.”
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“Patience is the art of hoping.”
-- Luc de ClapiersSource : Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
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“The maxims of men reveal their characters.”
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“Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.”
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“Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.”
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“The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.”
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“Great men, like nature, use simple language.”
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“The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.”
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“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”
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“Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.”
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“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.”
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“Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.”
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“The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.”
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“Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.”
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“The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.”
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“Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.”
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“We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.”
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“We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.”
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“You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.”
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“Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.”
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“Indolence is the sleep of the mind.”
-- Luc de ClapiersSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Réflexions, 390, p. 384-85, 1922.
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“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.”
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“The idle always have a mind to do something.”
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