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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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We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
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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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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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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
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The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.
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A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
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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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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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Commerce is the school of cheating.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Great men, like nature, use simple language.
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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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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
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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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We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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