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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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Military Personnel
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
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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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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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Give help rather than advice.
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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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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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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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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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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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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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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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