Quote

Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

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
Men
Renders
Weaker
Happier
Nations
Peace

More quotes by Luc de Clapiers

Image
Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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
Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
One can not be just if one is not humane.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Nothing endures except truth.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
Luc de Clapiers
Image
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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