More from Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

  1. The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
  2. When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
  3. Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
  4. Emotion has taught mankind to reason.
  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. Lazy people are always looking for something to do.
  7. L'esperance fait plus de dupes que l'habilete.
  8. He who knows how to suffer everything can risk everything.

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