Top 211 Quotes & Sayings by Luc de Clapiers

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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797, and from 1857 on, his aphorisms became popular. In the history of French literature, his significance lies chiefly in his friendship with Voltaire.

French - Writer | August 6, 1715 - May 28, 1747

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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

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The conscience of the dying belies their life.

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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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

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To possess taste, one must have some soul.

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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

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The maxims of men reveal their characters.

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

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Patience is the art of hoping.

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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

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All grand thoughts come from the heart.

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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

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Obscurity is the realm of error.

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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

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To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

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Great thoughts come from the heart.

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

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Those who can bear all can dare all.

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The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

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You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

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One promises much, to avoid giving little.

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One can not be just if one is not humane.

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The idle always have a mind to do something.

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

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Prosperity makes few friends.

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

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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

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Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.

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Give help rather than advice.

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He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

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Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

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Activity makes more men's fortunes than cautiousness.

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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

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All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

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

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When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

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Great men, like nature, use simple language.

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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.

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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

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As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

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It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

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