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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Writer
Aix
Style
Clearness
Ornaments
Profound
Thoughts

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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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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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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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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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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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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.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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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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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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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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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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