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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

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
Writer
Aix
Respects
Expectations
Hope
Thing
Good
Disillusion

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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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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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