Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues Quotes

• Les grandes pensees viennent du coeur.
• Translated: Great thoughts come from the heart.
• Those who fear men like laws.
• Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
• L'esperance fait plus de dupes que l'habilete.
• 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.
• Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
• The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
• The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
• When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
• Emotion has taught mankind to reason.
• Lazy people are always looking for something to do.
• He who knows how to suffer everything can risk everything.

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