Men Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

— Luc de Clapiers

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

— Luc de Clapiers

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

— Luc de Clapiers

Those who fear men like laws.

— Luc de Clapiers

All men are born truthful and die liars.

— Luc de Clapiers

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

— Luc de Clapiers

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

— Luc de Clapiers

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

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

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness…

— Luc de Clapiers

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do…

— Luc de Clapiers

Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether…

— Luc de Clapiers

A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows…

— 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

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

— Luc de Clapiers

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to…

— Luc de Clapiers

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound…

— Luc de Clapiers

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical…

— Luc de Clapiers

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.…

— Luc de Clapiers

All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of…

— Luc de Clapiers

Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes…

— Luc de Clapiers

As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion…

— Luc de Clapiers

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

— Luc de Clapiers

Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

— Luc de Clapiers

Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

— Luc de Clapiers

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Luc de Clapiers

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

— 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…

— Luc de Clapiers

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

— Luc de Clapiers