Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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
Sun
Advice
Give
Giving
Counsels
Like
Shine
Heat
Shining
Winter
More quotes by Luc de Clapiers
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Luc de Clapiers
Constancy is the chimera of love.
Luc de Clapiers
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
Luc de Clapiers
The idle always have a mind to do something.
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 how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
Luc de Clapiers
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
Luc de Clapiers
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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
Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
Luc de Clapiers
Give help rather than advice.
Luc de Clapiers
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
Luc de Clapiers
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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 for themselves.
Luc de Clapiers
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
Luc de Clapiers
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
Luc de Clapiers
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
Luc de Clapiers
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 fruitful.
Luc de Clapiers
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
Luc de Clapiers
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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
