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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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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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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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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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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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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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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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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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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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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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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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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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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