Quote

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

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
Think
Alliances
Thinking
Fault
Faults
Consider
Virtue
Monstrosity
Wrong
Enigma
Evil
Exclude
Good
Alliance

More quotes by Luc de Clapiers

Image
Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
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
Image
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
Luc de Clapiers