Quote

We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

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
Actions
Action
Enough
Time

More quotes by Luc de Clapiers

Image
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
Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
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 be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
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.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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
Image
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
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
Image
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
All men are born truthful and die liars.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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