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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

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
Writer
Aix
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Principles
Inexhaustible
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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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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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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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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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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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