Luc de Clapiers – 10 Quotes

10 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