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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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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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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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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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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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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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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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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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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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