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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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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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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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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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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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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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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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