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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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Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
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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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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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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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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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Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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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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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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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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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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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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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
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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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