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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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We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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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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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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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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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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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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Give help rather than advice.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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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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