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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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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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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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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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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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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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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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