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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

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
Writer
Aix
Intelligence
Ignorance
Genius
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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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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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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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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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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