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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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All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
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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 cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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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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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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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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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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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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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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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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