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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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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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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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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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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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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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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Give help rather than advice.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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