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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
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Aix
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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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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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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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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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