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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
Writer
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Understand
Men
Fools
Intelligence

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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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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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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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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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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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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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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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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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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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