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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
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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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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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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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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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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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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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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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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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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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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