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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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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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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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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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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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