Luc de Clapiers Quotes
Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers. Introduction à la connaissance de l'esprit humain, suivie de Réflexions et de Maximes. Antoine-Claude Briasson, 1746.
He meant to say “repository” and not “suppository”. The latter is a capsule of medicine that is placed inside the rectum.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797, and from 1857 on, his aphorisms became popular. In the history of French literature, his significance lies chiefly in his friendship with Voltaire (20 years his senior).
