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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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 easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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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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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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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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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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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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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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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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