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Action makes more fortune than caution.

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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Prosperity makes few friends.
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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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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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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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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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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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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Patience is the art of hoping.
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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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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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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 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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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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