More from Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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

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