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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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Give help rather than advice.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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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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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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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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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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