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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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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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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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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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