Luc de Clapiers Quotes
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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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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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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All grand thoughts come from the heart.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.