Marquis De Vauvenargues Quotes
"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Success, Aspirations)
"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
(Related: Men, Fear, Hope, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Soul, Taste)
"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Mankind, Weather)
"When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Thought)
"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Emotions, Mankind, Reason)
"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: People, Ability)
"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Time, Fame, Value)
"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Nature, Law, Mankind)
"Vice stirs up war, virtue fights."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: War, Virtue, Vice)
"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: People)
"All grand thoughts come from the heart."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Heart, Thoughts)
"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Thoughts, Clarity)
"Great thoughts always come from the heart."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Heart, Thoughts)
"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Society, People, Compliment)
"The idle always have a mind to do something."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Mind)
"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
(Related: Men, People, Merit, Praise)
"One promises much, to avoid giving little."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Giving, Promises)
"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Virtue)
"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Art, Deception)
"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
(Related: Achievement, Spirit)
"The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues
(Related: Men, Ambition, Evil, Fortune)
"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."
- Marquis De Vauvenargues