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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
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Knowledge
Proof
Lack
Intelligence
Ignorance
Genius

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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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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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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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Prosperity makes few friends.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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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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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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