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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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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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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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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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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Nothing endures except truth.
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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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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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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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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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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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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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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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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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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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