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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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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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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Nothing endures except truth.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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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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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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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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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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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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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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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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Patience is the art of hoping.
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