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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

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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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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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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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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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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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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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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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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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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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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