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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
Luc de Clapiers
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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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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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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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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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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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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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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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