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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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Action
Makes
Caution
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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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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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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 discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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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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