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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
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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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 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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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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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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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 are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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