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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
Writer
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Caution
Fortune
Acting
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Nothing endures except truth.
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All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
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We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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Give help rather than advice.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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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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