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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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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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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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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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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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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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Habit is everything, even in love.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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