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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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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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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates 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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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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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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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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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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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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