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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Luc de Clapiers

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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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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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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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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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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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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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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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