Luc de Clapiers Thinking Quotations

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

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.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.