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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
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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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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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Nothing endures except truth.
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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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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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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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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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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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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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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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