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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
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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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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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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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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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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