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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
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Aix
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Inexhaustible
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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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Give help rather than advice.
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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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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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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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As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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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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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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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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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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