Marquis De Vauvenargues
27 quotations
Give help rather than advice.
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.
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Obscurity is the realm of error.
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.
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.