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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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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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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 people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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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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Give help rather than advice.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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