Quote #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.

More from Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

  1. L'esperance fait plus de dupes que l'habilete.
  2. Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
  3. Pour executer de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
  4. The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
  5. Those who fear men like laws.
  6. The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
  7. Translated: Great thoughts come from the heart.
  8. When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

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