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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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Fortune
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
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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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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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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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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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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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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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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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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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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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