All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Luc de Clapiers
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
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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.
Luc de Clapiers
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
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The idle always have a mind to do something.
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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Those who can bear all can dare all.
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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To possess taste, one must have some soul.
Luc de Clapiers
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