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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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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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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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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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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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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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