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Some are born to invent, others to embellish but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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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Nothing endures except truth.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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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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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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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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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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