Famous Quotes / Marquis de Vauvenargues
51 Quotations by Marquis de Vauvenargues
- 1. All grand thoughts come from the heart.
- 2. Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
- 3. Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
- 4. Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
- 5. Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
- 6. Give help rather than advice.
- 7. Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
- 8. Great thoughts always come from the heart.
- 9. He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
- 10. If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I reply: Because I have been wrong once, or oftener, I ...
- 11. If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
- 12. It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subord ...
- 13. Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
- 14. Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
- 15. Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modes ...
- 16. Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. ...
- 17. Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
- 18. No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
- 19. No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
- 20. Nothing but courage can guide life.