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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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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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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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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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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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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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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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Give help rather than advice.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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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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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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