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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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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Aix
Vice
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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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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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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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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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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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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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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