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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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Aix
Fortune
Acting
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Caution
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Give help rather than advice.
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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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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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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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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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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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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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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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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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