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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

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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Truths
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Speculations

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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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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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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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It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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