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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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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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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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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
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