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No one likes to be pitied for his 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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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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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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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 wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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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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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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