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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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
Lamp
Lamps
Adversity
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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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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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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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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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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 lazy are always wanting to do something.
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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 idle always have a mind to do something.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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