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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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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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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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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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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Give help rather than advice.
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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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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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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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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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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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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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