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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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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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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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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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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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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 fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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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 maxims of men reveal their characters.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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