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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

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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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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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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