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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 favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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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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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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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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Prosperity makes few friends.
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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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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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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