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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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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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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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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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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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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.
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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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