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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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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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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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As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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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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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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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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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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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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