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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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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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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 art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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