Zitat Von Luc De Clapiers Vauvenargues Quotes

There are many things we despise in order that we may not have to despise ourselves. ~ Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

Great thoughts come from the heart ~ Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

What we call a brilliant thought is usually just a captivating expression which, with the help of a little truth, imposes a surprising error on us. ~ Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

More are taken in by love than by cunning. ~ Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. ~ Luc De Clapiers

One can not be just if one is not humane. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. ~ Luc De Clapiers

With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature. ~ Luc De Clapiers

If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Commerce is the school of cheating. ~ Luc De Clapiers

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. ~ Luc De Clapiers

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die. ~ Luc De Clapiers

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. ~ Luc De Clapiers

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth. ~ Luc De Clapiers

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error. ~ Luc De Clapiers

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long. ~ Luc De Clapiers

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. ~ Luc De Clapiers

The art of pleasing is the art of deception. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful. ~ Luc De Clapiers

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes. ~ Luc De Clapiers

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. ~ Luc De Clapiers

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it. ~ Luc De Clapiers

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate. ~ Luc De Clapiers

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought. ~ Luc De Clapiers

The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love. ~ Luc De Clapiers

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. ~ Luc De Clapiers

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection. ~ Luc De Clapiers

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Give help rather than advice. ~ Luc De Clapiers

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate. ~ Luc De Clapiers

A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness. ~ Luc De Clapiers

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. ~ Luc De Clapiers

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. ~ Luc De Clapiers

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. ~ Luc De Clapiers