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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Luc de Clapiers

Patience is the art of hoping.
Luc de Clapiers

Patience, Art, Hoping

All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers

Heart, Thoughts, Grand

One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Luc de Clapiers

Giving, Avoid, Promises

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Luc de Clapiers

Art, Deception, Pleasing

Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers

Great, Heart, Thoughts

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Luc de Clapiers

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers

Thoughts, Clarity, Profound

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
Luc de Clapiers

Fool, Rich, Themselves

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Luc de Clapiers

Labor, Fruit, Sweetest

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Luc de Clapiers

Live, Greatest, Human

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Luc de Clapiers

Nature, Law, Cannot

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Luc de Clapiers

Time, Value, Born

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Luc de Clapiers

Reason, Emotions, Mankind

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Luc de Clapiers

Society, Another, Compliment

One can not be just if one is not humane.
Luc de Clapiers

Prosperity makes few friends.
Luc de Clapiers

Friends, Makes, Few

The maxims of men reveal their characters.
Luc de Clapiers

Men, Characters, Reveal

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
Luc de Clapiers

Thought, Weak, Simply

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Luc de Clapiers

Thoughts, Profound, Clearness

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
Luc de Clapiers

Die, Everyone, Born

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
Luc de Clapiers

Mind, Sleep, Indolence

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
Luc de Clapiers

Wish, Difficult, Esteem

Obscurity is the realm of error.
Luc de Clapiers

Error, Realm, Obscurity

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers

Failure, Sometimes, Another

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: August 6, 1715

Died: May 28, 1747

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