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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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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 dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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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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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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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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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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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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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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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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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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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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