Vauvenargues Quotes
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~ Vauvenargues Quote
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Action makes more fortunes than caution.
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Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, Fénelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Condé, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".
~ Vauvenargues Quote
All men are born truthful and die liars.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Patience is the art of hoping.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I reply: Because I have been wrong once, or oftener, I do not aspire to be always wrong.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
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No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
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To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
~ Vauvenargues Quote
