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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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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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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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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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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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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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Give help rather than advice.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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