Luc de Clapiers Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• All grand thoughts come from the heart.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Work, Heart, Thinking

• Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Christian, Heart, Men

• We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Heart, Contentment, Talent

• The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Lying, Eye, Passion

• And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

  Luc de Clapiers

  Children, Heart, Dark

• It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Heart, Numbers, Soul

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

• We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Believe, Heart, Perfection

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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