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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
Writer
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Humane

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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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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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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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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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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
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