More from Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

  1. Lazy people are always looking for something to do.
  2. Emotion has taught mankind to reason.
  3. When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
  4. The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
  5. The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
  6. Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
  7. Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded peo…
  8. L'esperance fait plus de dupes que l'habilete.

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