1715-1747, French Moralist
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Thoughts and Thinking]
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Thoughts and Thinking]
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Emotions]
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Deception]
Give help rather than advice.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Advice]
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Thoughts and Thinking]
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Compliments]
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Laziness]
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Praise]
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Awareness]
Obscurity is the realm of error.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Obscurity]
Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Work]
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Promises]
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Failure]
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Deception]
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Opportunity]
The idle always have a mind to do something.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Laziness]
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Nature]
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Risk]
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
Marquis De Vauvenargues – [Knowledge]