Great Throughts Treasury

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

French Moralist, Essayist, Writer of Aphorisms

"The sterility of feeling nourished laziness."

"The strength or weakness of death depends on the last illness."

"The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine."

"The term is the ability to govern without force."

"The storms of youth are surrounded by bright days."

"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

"The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live."

"The things we know best are those that are not learned."

"The usefulness of virtue is so obvious that the bad practice by the interest."

"The traffic does not enrich the honor."

"The ungodly said God: wherefore hast thou made ??miserable?"

"The truth is the sum of intelligences."

"The war is not so expensive that bondage."

"The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good."

"The word courage is fearlessness in jeopardy."

"The world is what it should be for being active, full of obstacles."

"The world is a great dance where everyone is masked."

"The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old."

"There are curses that must hide to avoid compromising his honor."

"There are men who are happy without knowing it."

"There are no contradictions in nature."

"There are few thoughts synonyms, but many oncoming."

"There are more great fortunes than great talents."

"There are none so sour as those who are sweet to order."

"There are seeds of goodness and justice in the heart of man, if self-interest dominates."

"There is no man who has sense enough to dow never boring."

"There is no point of insult that is unforgiving when it was avenged."

"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."

"There are more severe than justice."

"There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything."

"There can be no contradictions in nature."

"There are very few people more sour than those with mild interest."

"There can be no truth which is false in any material spirit of error."

"There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome."

"There is more bad advice caprices."

"They despise the great designs when not feeling capable of great success."

"Those who are not able to please women get corrected."

"This is a great sign of mediocrity always moderately to rent."

"This is a reason to talk a lot to think little."

"There is nothing that fear and hope does not persuade men."

"Those who can bear all can dare all."

"There may be many truths among men than errors."

"There is one rule for minds and bodies: they can only be preserved by continual nourishment."

"There would be no errors that die of themselves, made ??clear."

"This is a great sign of mediocrity always moderately to rent."

"Those who despise the man are never great men."

"Those who escape the miseries of poverty cannot escape those pride."

"Those who fear men like laws."

"Those who do not take advantage of other men can usually accessible."

"Those who fear men love the laws."