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From Quotes by Luc de Clapiers
- All grand thoughts come from the heart.
- The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
- The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.
- 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…
- We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
- The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
- We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
- We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
- We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves...
- Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
- Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
- Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
- We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
- Great thoughts come from the heart.
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