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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.
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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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 no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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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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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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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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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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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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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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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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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 art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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Give help rather than advice.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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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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