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Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

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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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If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
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As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.
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Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
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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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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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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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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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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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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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Constancy is the chimera of love.
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We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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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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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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