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Give help rather than advice.

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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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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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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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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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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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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