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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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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Luc de Clapiers
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
Luc de Clapiers
Commerce is the school of cheating.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Luc de Clapiers
Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
Luc de Clapiers
Constancy is the chimera of love.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
Luc de Clapiers
If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
Luc de Clapiers
We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Luc de Clapiers
All men are born truthful and die liars.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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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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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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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
Luc de Clapiers
Those who can bear all can dare all.
Luc de Clapiers
Give help rather than advice.
Luc de Clapiers
