Luc de Clapiers

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society…

Patience is the art of hoping…

You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to…

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself…

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature…

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught…

The art of pleasing is the art of deception…

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success…

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights…

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do…