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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
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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.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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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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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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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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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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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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Nothing endures except truth.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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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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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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