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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
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
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Thinking
Fault
Faults
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Virtue
Monstrosity
Wrong
Enigma
Evil
Exclude
Good
Alliance
Think
Alliances

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