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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

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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Evils
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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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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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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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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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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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