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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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 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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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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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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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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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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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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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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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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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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