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Nothing endures except truth.

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
Truth
Nothing
Endures
Endure
Except

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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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Habit is everything, even in love.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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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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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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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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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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