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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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Littles
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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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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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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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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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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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