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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
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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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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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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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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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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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 fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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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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Those who fear men like laws.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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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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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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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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