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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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More quotes by Luc de Clapiers
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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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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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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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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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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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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