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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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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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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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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
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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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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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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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Give help rather than advice.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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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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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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