12 Quotes By Luc de Clapiers

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Patience is the art of hoping.
Luc de Clapiers on art

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers on art

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Luc de Clapiers on best

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers on failure

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Luc de Clapiers on fear

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Luc de Clapiers on hope

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Luc de Clapiers on nature

Patience is the art of hoping.
Luc de Clapiers on patience

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Luc de Clapiers on society

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Luc de Clapiers on strength

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Luc de Clapiers on success

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Luc de Clapiers on war