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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.
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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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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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 can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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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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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
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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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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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