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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
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Ideas
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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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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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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 discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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