If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
Luc de ClapiersMen dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
Luc de ClapiersThe 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