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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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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Military Personnel
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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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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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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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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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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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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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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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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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