Quote

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

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
Talent
Great
Heart
Console
Talents
Contentment
Hearts
Places

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
Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Those who can bear all can dare all.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Luc de Clapiers