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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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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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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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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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