Quotes By Luc De Clapiers

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

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

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

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

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

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.

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

Prosperity makes few friends.

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

Those who can bear all can dare all.

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

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Great thoughts come from the heart.