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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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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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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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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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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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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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Give help rather than advice.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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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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We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
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