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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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Military Personnel
Philosopher
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Without
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Honorable
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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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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.
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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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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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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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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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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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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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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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