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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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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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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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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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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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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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