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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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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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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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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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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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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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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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Nothing endures except truth.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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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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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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