Luc de Clapiers - Fear Quotes

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When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others have said it before us. Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Luc de Clapiers

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.

Luc de Clapiers

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.

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Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

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Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

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We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

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