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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.
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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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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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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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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