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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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Inexhaustible
Renewal

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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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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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Nothing endures except truth.
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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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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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