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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
Men
Permit
Hope
Fear
Inspirational
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Nothing

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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
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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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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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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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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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