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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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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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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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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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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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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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Give help rather than advice.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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