Quotes by Vauvenargues, Marquis De

"Give help rather than advice."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on advice
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"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on deception
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"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on deception   

"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on emotions
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"Those who can bear all can dare all."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on endurance
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on expectation   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on failure   

"We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on hatred   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on immortality
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"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on knowledge
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"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on laziness
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"The idle always have a mind to do something."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on laziness   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on motivation
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"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on motivation   

"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on nature   

"Obscurity is the realm of error."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on obscurity   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on opportunity   

"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."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on war
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"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."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on praise   

"One promises much, to avoid giving little."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on promises   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on risk   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on simplicity
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"To possess taste, one must have some soul."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on taste   

"All grand thoughts come from the heart."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on thoughts and thinking   

"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on thoughts and thinking   

"Great thoughts always come from the heart."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on thoughts and thinking   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on time
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"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on vice   

"Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on work   

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on ability
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"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on compliments