Luc de Clapiers People Quotations

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

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

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

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

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

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.