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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
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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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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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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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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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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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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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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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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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Give help rather than advice.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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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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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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