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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
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Military Personnel
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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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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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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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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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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Prosperity makes few friends.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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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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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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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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Nothing endures except truth.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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