Luc de Clapiers

“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”

“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”

“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”

“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.”

“The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.”

“If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.”

“You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.”

“The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.”

“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”