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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

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
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Aix
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Littles
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Society

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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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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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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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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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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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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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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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