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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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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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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 mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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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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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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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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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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