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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
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
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Aix
Littles
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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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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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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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 fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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