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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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Military Personnel
Philosopher
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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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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Habit is everything, even in love.
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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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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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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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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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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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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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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 is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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