Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. Luc de Clapiers More Quotes by Luc de Clapiers More Quotes From Luc de Clapiers 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 governmentvicesdone In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. Luc de Clapiers great-thingsgreatnessorder Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. Luc de Clapiers servitudedegradepeople All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken. Luc de Clapiers differencesmenthinking The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason. Luc de Clapiers witreasoncharacter Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame. Luc de Clapiers vanitycareersmen It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength. Luc de Clapiers vicessensiblemen There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome. Luc de Clapiers intelligentdoemen Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. Luc de Clapiers moralitylightfirsts It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem. Luc de Clapiers proofworthymind 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. Luc de Clapiers reason-and-emotiongrantedregulation It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves. Luc de Clapiers desireadvicemen When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. Luc de Clapiers virtuesickvices Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. Luc de Clapiers virtuousweaknessmen Despair is the greatest of our errors. Luc de Clapiers despairerrors A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle. Luc de Clapiers wickedprinciplesmen It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said. Luc de Clapiers reconcileeasiersaid There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. Luc de Clapiers fearinspirationalmen Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. Luc de Clapiers ornamentsstyleprofound A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. Luc de Clapiers principlesviewsdiscovery
