Constancy is the chimera of love. Luc de Clapiers More Quotes by Luc de Clapiers More Quotes From Luc de Clapiers The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat. Luc de Clapiers shining winter giving Habit is everything, even in love. Luc de Clapiers habit 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 ambition evil men Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. Luc de Clapiers greatness men thinking Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness. Luc de Clapiers misery despair weakness Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. Luc de Clapiers superficial-knowledge genius ignorance The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. Luc de Clapiers pleasure pain life Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. Luc de Clapiers risk opposites men We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence. Luc de Clapiers fool hurt men You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. Luc de Clapiers want character people 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 fighting struggle letting-go Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm. Luc de Clapiers enthusiasm men Lazy people always intend to start doing something. Luc de Clapiers lazy-people lazy people 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 achievement accomplishment opportunity Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own. Luc de Clapiers affection relation Clearness is the ornament of deep thought. Luc de Clapiers clearness ornaments deep-thought With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature. Luc de Clapiers kings rights animal Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature. Luc de Clapiers equal blow fortune We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give. Luc de Clapiers study fortune giving The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones. Luc de Clapiers practice men mean
