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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
Endures
Endure
Except
Truth
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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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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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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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Prosperity makes few friends.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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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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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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