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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

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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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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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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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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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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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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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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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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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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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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