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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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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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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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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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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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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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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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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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