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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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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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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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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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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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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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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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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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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
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