Luc de Clapiers
Quotes by Luc de Clapiers
Patience is the art of hoping.
— Luc de Clapiers
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
— Luc de Clapiers
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
— Luc de Clapiers
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
— Luc de Clapiers
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
— Luc de Clapiers
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
— Luc de Clapiers
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
— Luc de Clapiers
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
— Luc de Clapiers
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
— Luc de Clapiers