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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

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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Clearness
Ornament
Ornaments
Deep
Thought

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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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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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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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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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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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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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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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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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