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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Luc de Clapiers

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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Writer
Aix
Inspirational
Doe
Nothing
Men
Permit
Hope
Fear

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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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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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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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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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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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