Maxims Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

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

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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