Greatness Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

14 Greatness quotes by Luc de Clapiers

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Luc de Clapiers contributes 14 reflections that explore greatness through a philosophical lens. His measured tone invites contemplation of ambition’s deeper ethical dimensions.

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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

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The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

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Great men, like nature, use simple language.

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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

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There are men who are happy without knowing it.

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In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

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Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

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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…

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The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get…

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The maxims of men reveal their characters.

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Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

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

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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

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

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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…

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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

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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…

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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

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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.

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