Vauvenargues
Quotes by Vauvenargues
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
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The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
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Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.
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All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.
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Emotion has taught mankind to reason.
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He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
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Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
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The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.
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Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.
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We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather.
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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We promise much to avoid giving little.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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What we dignify with the name of peace is really only a short truce, in accordance with which the weaker party renounces his claims, whether just or unjust, until such time as he can find an opportunity of asserting them with the sword.
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