Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
Luc de ClapiersA man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
Luc de ClapiersThe generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.
Luc de Clapiers