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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
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Military Personnel
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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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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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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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Give help rather than advice.
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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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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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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
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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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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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