Luc de Clapiers
Patience is the art of hoping.
-Luc de Clapiers
art
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
-Luc de Clapiers
art
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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best
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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failure
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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fear
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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hope
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
-Luc de Clapiers
nature
Patience is the art of hoping.
-Luc de Clapiers
patience
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
-Luc de Clapiers
society
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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strength
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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success
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
-Luc de Clapiers
war
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