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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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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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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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