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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
Writer
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Liable
Mistakes
None
Thoughts
Second
Mistake

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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 lazy are always wanting to do something.
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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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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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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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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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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
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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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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
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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.
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