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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

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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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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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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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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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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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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