Quote

Those who can bear all can dare all.

Luc de Clapiers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Writer
Aix
Bears
Endurance
Dare
Bear

More quotes by Luc de Clapiers

Image
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Great men, like nature, use simple language.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Constancy is the chimera of love.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Commerce is the school of cheating.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
Luc de Clapiers