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Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues on Love

1715–1747 France

← All quotes by Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

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Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Reflections and Maxims (1746)

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

Reflections and Maxims (1746)

Those who fear men love the laws.

Reflections and Maxims (1746)

Servitude debases man to a degree that leads him to love it.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

Constancy is the chimera of love.

Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1902)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.