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Luc de Clapiers was a 18th-century French writer, nobleman and moralist. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Great thoughts come from the heart.”
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“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”
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“Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”
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“Patience is the art of hoping.”
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Art Hoping

“There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.”
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“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”
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