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The maxims of men reveal their characters.

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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
Maxims
Reveal
Characters
Character
Men

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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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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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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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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.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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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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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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