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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
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More quotes by Luc de Clapiers
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
Luc de Clapiers
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.
Luc de Clapiers
Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
Luc de Clapiers
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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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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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
Luc de Clapiers
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Luc de Clapiers
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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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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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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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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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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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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Give help rather than advice.
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