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The idle always have a mind to do something.
Luc de Clapiers
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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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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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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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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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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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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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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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