Famous Quotes / Marquis de Vauvenargues
51 Quotations by Marquis de Vauvenargues
- 21. Obscurity is the realm of error.
- 22. Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
- 23. One promises much, to avoid giving little.
- 24. Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
- 25. Patience is the art of hoping.
- 26. People often feel offended by praise because it designates a limit to their excellence. Few people a ...
- 27. Prosperity makes few friends.
- 28. Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
- 29. Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
- 30. The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
- 31. The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most ...
- 32. The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great amb ...
- 33. The idle always have a mind to do something.
- 34. The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
- 35. The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
- 36. The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- 37. There are men who are happy without knowing it.
- 38. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anythin ...
- 39. There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
- 40. Those who can bear all can dare all.