Luc de Clapiers Short Quotes

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Lazy people are always looking for something to do.

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The things we know best are those we have not learned.

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Magnanimity owes no account to prudence of its motives.

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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

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He who knows how to suffer everything can risk everything.

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

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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

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There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

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It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

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We quarrel with unfortunates to be exempted from pitying them.

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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

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Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.

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The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.

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The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.

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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

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The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

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When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

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There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

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We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather.

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In order to do great things, we should live as though we were never to die.

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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

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Virtue is so praiseworthy that wicked people practice it from self-interest.

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The world forgives with difficulty the fact that one can be happy without it.

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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

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Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

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