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Prosperity makes few friends.

Luc de Clapiers

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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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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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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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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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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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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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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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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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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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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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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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Give help rather than advice.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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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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