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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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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
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Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!.
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You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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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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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.
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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 wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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