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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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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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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
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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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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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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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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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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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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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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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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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