Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves... — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
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 Copy Share
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
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 Copy Share
It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share
