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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
Writer
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Adversity
Courage
Lamp
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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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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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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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Habit is everything, even in love.
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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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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
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