Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
Luc de Clapiers
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Writer
Aix
Intelligence
Fool
Hurt
Less
Men
Lukewarm
Approval
Fools
Contempt
More quotes by Luc de Clapiers
Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
Luc de Clapiers
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
Luc de Clapiers
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
Luc de Clapiers
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Luc de Clapiers
Obscurity is the realm of error.
Luc de Clapiers
Give help rather than advice.
Luc de Clapiers
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Luc de Clapiers
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Luc de Clapiers
You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
Luc de Clapiers
If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
Luc de Clapiers
Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
Luc de Clapiers
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
Luc de Clapiers
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
Luc de Clapiers
Habit is everything, even in love.
Luc de Clapiers
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
Luc de Clapiers
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers
Commerce is the school of cheating.
Luc de Clapiers
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Luc de Clapiers
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
Luc de Clapiers
Constancy is the chimera of love.
Luc de Clapiers
