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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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
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Aix
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Men
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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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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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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