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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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More quotes by Luc de Clapiers
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.
Luc de Clapiers
Lazy people always intend to start doing something.
Luc de Clapiers
The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
Luc de Clapiers
I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
Luc de Clapiers
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.
Luc de Clapiers
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Luc de Clapiers
Those who can bear all can dare all.
Luc de Clapiers
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
Luc de Clapiers
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Luc de Clapiers
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
Luc de Clapiers
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
Luc de Clapiers
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
Luc de Clapiers
We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
Luc de Clapiers
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Luc de Clapiers
Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
Luc de Clapiers
