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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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 that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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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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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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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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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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