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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
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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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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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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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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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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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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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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