Luc de Clapiers
Luc de Clapiers
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargueswas a minor French writer, a moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797, and from 1857 on, his aphorisms became popular. In the history of French literature, his significance lies chiefly in his friendship with Voltaire...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 August 1715
CountryFrance
Luc de Clapiers quotes about
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Prosperity makes few friends.
Give help rather than advice.
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Those who can bear all can dare all.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
All men are born truthful and die liars.
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".