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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
Luc de Clapiers
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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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Slander
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Mankind
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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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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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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