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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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Military Personnel
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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
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The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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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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Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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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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We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.
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It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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Jealousy is the paralysis of love.
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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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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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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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Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
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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 usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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