Top 160 Luc de Clapiers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.”

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2. “Emotions have taught mankind to reason.”

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3. “The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”

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4. “Courage is adversity’s lamp.”

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5. “Give help rather than advice.”

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

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7. “Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.”

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8. “You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.”

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9. “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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10. “We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.”

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11. “Great men, like nature, use simple language.”

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

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13. “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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14. “Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.”

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

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16. “The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.”

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17. “All men are born truthful and die liars.”

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18. “The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.”

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19. “Those who can bear all can dare all.”

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20. “Hope deceives more men than cunning does.”

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21. “To possess taste, one must have some soul.”

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22. “Wit does not take the place of knowledge.”

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23. “Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.”

— Luc de Clapiers

24. “Nothing endures except truth.”

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25. “Action makes more fortune than caution.”

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26. “Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.”

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27. “Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”

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28. “The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.”

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29. “Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.”

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30. “Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.”

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

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32. “Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.”

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33. “The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.”

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34. “Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.”

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35. “Commerce is the school of cheating.”

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36. “Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.”

— Luc de Clapiers

37. “The conscience of the dying belies their life.”

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38. “Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.”

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39. “He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”

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

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

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

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43. “Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.”

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44. “You are not born for fame if you don’t know the value of time.”

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45. “All that is unfair, offends us if it’s not beneficial for us.”

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

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

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48. “And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood’s uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!”

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

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

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