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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

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
Aix
Men
Deceives
Deceiving
Cunning
Hope
Science
Doe

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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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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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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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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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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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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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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 are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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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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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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