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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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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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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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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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
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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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Those who fear men like laws.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than 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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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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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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Prosperity makes few friends.
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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