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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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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Humane
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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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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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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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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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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