We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn, or bring it alongside of another truth, which may make it clearer, and thereby accumulate evidence. It belongs to the inventive faculty to see clearly the relative state of things, and to be able to place them in connection; but the discoveries of ages gone by belong less to their first authors than to those who make them practically useful to the world.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. - Luc De Clapiers
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
- Luc De Clapiers
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. - Luc De Clapiers
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. - Luc De Clapiers
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion … - Luc De Clapiers
Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion …
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. - Luc De Clapiers
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. - Luc De Clapiers
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us - Luc De Clapiers
All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us
A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and und… - Luc De Clapiers
A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and und…
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator. - Luc De Clapiers
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
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