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Luc De Clapiers Inspirational Quotes (128)

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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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