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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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Vice foments war it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
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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 conscience of the dying belies their life.
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It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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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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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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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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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.
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One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
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In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.
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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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Children are taught to fear and obey the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
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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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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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