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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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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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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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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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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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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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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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Patience is the art of hoping.
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Give help rather than advice.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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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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