More from Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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

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