Marquis De Vauvenargues Quotes

» Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

» We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

» If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

» Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

» The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

» Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

» Those who can bear all can dare all.

» Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

» To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

» The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

» The idle always have a mind to do something.

» Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

» There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

» You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

» The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

» The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

» One promises much, to avoid giving little.

» The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

» When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

» All grand thoughts come from the heart.

» Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

» Great thoughts always come from the heart.

» You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

» Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

» Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

» To possess taste, one must have some soul.

» The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

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