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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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
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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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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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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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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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Give help rather than advice.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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