Best Luc de Clapiers Quotes
- He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything. Dare
- One promises much, to avoid giving little. Avoid
- Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. Advice
- Give help rather than advice. Advice
- Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest. Day
- Prosperity makes few friends. Few
- The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. Adopted
- It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise. Everyone
- The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. Always Surprised
- Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes. Capability
- Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth. Estimated
- The conscience of the dying belies their life. Belies
- Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless. Awareness
- The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. Accomplishment
- The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. Antiwar
- Great men, like nature, use simple language. Great
- The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. Ambition
- Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. Easy
- Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. Despair
- 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… Arrogance
- Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. Genius
- The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. Console
- Indolence is the sleep of the mind. Indolence
- 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… Affluent
- You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. Character
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