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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

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
Emotions
Emotional
Mankind
Emotion
Taught
Reason

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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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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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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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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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