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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
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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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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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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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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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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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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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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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 falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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