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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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Thought
Clearness
Ornament
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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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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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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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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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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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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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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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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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