All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The idle always have a mind to do something.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Those who can bear all can dare all.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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Date of Birth:
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Year of Death:
1747
Nationality:
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