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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
Luc de Clapiers
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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
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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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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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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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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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We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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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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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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