“If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.”
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Famous Luc de Clapiers Quotes
“He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.”
“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”
“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims