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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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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Military Personnel
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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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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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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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Nothing endures except truth.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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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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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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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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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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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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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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