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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever. -- Luc De Clapiers
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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence. -- Luc De Clapiers
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When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The maxims of men reveal their characters. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Great men, like nature, use simple language. -- Luc De Clapiers
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There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome. -- Luc De Clapiers
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Patience is the art of hoping. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves. -- Luc De Clapiers
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No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. -- Luc De Clapiers
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All grand thoughts come from the heart. -- Luc De Clapiers
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There are men who are happy without knowing it. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Constancy is the chimera of love. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him -- Luc De Clapiers
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Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises. -- Luc De Clapiers
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong. -- Luc De Clapiers
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To possess taste, one must have some soul. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. -- Luc De Clapiers
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Consciousness of our strength increases it. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Habit is everything, even in love. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live. -- Luc De Clapiers
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One can not be just if one is not humane. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations. -- Luc De Clapiers
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. -- Luc De Clapiers
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You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? -- Luc De Clapiers
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One promises much, to avoid giving little. -- Luc De Clapiers
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He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Lazy people always intend to start doing something. -- Luc De Clapiers
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And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart! -- Luc De Clapiers
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Those who fear men like laws. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Those who can bear all can dare all. -- Luc De Clapiers
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men. -- Luc De Clapiers
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When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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!". -- Luc De Clapiers
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat. -- Luc De Clapiers
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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength. -- Luc De Clapiers
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All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us -- Luc De Clapiers
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Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature. -- Luc De Clapiers
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When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected. -- Luc De Clapiers
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He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Commerce is the school of cheating. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Courage is adversity's lamp. -- Luc De Clapiers
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If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Nothing endures except truth. -- Luc De Clapiers
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In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Obscurity is the realm of error. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Reason deceives us more often than does nature. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The mind reaches great heights only by spurts. -- Luc De Clapiers
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others. -- Luc De Clapiers
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Wit does not take the place of knowledge. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Prosperity makes few friends. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give. -- Luc De Clapiers
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Consciousness of our powers augments them. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine. -- Luc De Clapiers
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To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die. -- Luc De Clapiers
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. -- Luc De Clapiers
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In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. -- Luc De Clapiers
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Give help rather than advice. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The best things are the most common. -- Luc De Clapiers
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It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it. -- Luc De Clapiers
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All men are born truthful and die liars. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The idle always have a mind to do something. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does. -- Luc De Clapiers
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason. -- Luc De Clapiers
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind. -- Luc De Clapiers
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good. -- Luc De Clapiers
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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. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Despair is the greatest of our errors. -- Luc De Clapiers
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The conscience of the dying belies their life. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason. -- Luc De Clapiers
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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves ... -- Luc De Clapiers
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. -- Luc De Clapiers
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The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love. -- Luc De Clapiers
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth. -- Luc De Clapiers