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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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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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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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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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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 wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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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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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
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