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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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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To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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Those who fear men like laws.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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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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Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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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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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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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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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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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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