You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

- Luc De Clapiers

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

- Luc De Clapiers

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

- Luc De Clapiers

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

- Luc De Clapiers

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion …

- Luc De Clapiers

We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

- Luc De Clapiers

A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and und…

- Luc De Clapiers

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.

- Luc De Clapiers

All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

- Luc De Clapiers