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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
Mankind
Emotion
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Reason
Emotions
Emotional
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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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Patience is the art of hoping.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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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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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
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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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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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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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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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