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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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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 common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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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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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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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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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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