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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.

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
Aix
Renders
Weaker
Happier
Nations
Peace
Men

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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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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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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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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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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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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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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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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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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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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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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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