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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
Writer
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Threadbare
Fewer
Speech
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Truth
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People

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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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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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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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