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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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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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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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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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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 law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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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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