Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Give help rather than advice.

— 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

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Those who can bear all can dare all.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

The idle always have a mind to do something.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— 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

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Obscurity is the realm of error.

— 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

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

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

— Marquis De Vauvenargues