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Great men, like nature, use simple language.

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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Great
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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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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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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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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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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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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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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 art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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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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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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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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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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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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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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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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