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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
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Aix
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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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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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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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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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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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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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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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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Nothing endures except truth.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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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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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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