More from Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

  1. Translated: Great thoughts come from the heart.
  2. Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
  3. Les grandes pensees viennent du coeur.
  4. L'esperance fait plus de dupes que l'habilete.
  5. Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded peo…
  6. Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
  7. The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
  8. The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

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