Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues Quotes

Luc de Clapiers offers sharp philosophical musings on psychology, creativity and emotion.

13 quotes

1. Les grandes pensees viennent du coeur.

2. Translated: Great thoughts come from the heart.

3. Those who fear men like laws.

4. Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.

5. L'esperance fait plus de dupes que l'habilete.

6. Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

7. Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

8. The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

9. The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

10. When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

11. Emotion has taught mankind to reason.

12. Lazy people are always looking for something to do.

13. He who knows how to suffer everything can risk everything.