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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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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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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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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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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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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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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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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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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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