Luc de Clapiers - Love Quotes

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Servitude debases man to a degree that leads him to love it.

Luc de Clapiers

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

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.

Luc de Clapiers

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Luc de Clapiers

If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulses of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavor is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.

Luc de Clapiers

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Luc de Clapiers