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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

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
Philosopher
Writer
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Ideas
Would
Erroneous
Perish
Accord
Expression
Clear
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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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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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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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 law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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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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