Quotes from Reflections and Maxims — Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
1715–1747 France
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Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Those who continually slander, rarely do injury: they imagine more evil than they can accomplish.
He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.
There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.
It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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