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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
The mind is the soul’s eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
It is not in everyone’s power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
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 (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn, or bring it alongside of another truth, which may make it clearer, and thereby accumulate evidence. It belongs to the inventive faculty to see clearly the relative state of things, and to be able to place them in connection; but the discoveries of ages gone by belong less to their first authors than to those who make them practically useful to the world (Luc De Clapiers Quotes)
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 Quotes)