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Great Quotes by Luc de Clapiers
- To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
- Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
- Great men, like nature, use simple language.
- Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
- Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
- It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.
- Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages…
- The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
- 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…
- To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
- Great thoughts come from the heart.
- The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
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