Marquis de Vauvenargues

Quotes by Marquis de Vauvenargues

• Give help rather than advice.

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• In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

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• Clearness is the ornament of profound thought.

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• We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

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• Generosity gives help rather than advice.

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• The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

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• The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

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• Great men, like nature, use simple language.

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• Patience is the art of hoping.

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• The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

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• Vice stirs up war; virtue fights.

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