Luc de Clapiers Quote

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.


La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims (ed. 1903)


We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.