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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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Courage
Lamp
Lamps
Adversity

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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
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The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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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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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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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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It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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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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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Habit is everything, even in love.
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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 fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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