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Luc de Clapiers Quotes About Reflection

Quotes about: Reflection
  • It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

    Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
  • No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

    "La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims".
  • If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

    "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, translated by E. Lee, pp. 170-171, 1903.

Luc de Clapiers

  • Born: August 6, 1715
  • Died: May 28, 1747
  • Occupation: Writer
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