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Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Achievement category:
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)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Advice category:
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Aging category:
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps fewer wrong-minded people than thoughtless. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Ambition category:
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Appreciation category:
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Character category:
Men's maxims reveal their characters. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Choices category:
Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Courage category:
Action makes more fortune than caution. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Criticism category:
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Deception category:
Everyone is born sincere and dies a deceiver. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Deception category:
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Discovery category:
We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Emotion category:
Emotions have taught mankind to reason. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Failure category:
We are often dismayed to find that even disasters cannot cure us of our faults. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Fame category:
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Fear category:
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Generosity category:
One promises much, to avoid giving little. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Goodness category:
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Greatness category:
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Habit category:
Habit is everything, even in love. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Happiness category:
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Hope category:
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Humanity category:
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Humility category:
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)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Indolence category:
The idle always have a mind to do something. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Knowledge category:
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Life category:
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Obscurity category:
Obscurity is the realm of error. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Optimism category:
Men's thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity... You need not. You can crash through... wherever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Patience category:
Patience is the art of hoping. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Pleasure category:
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Renewal category:
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Simplicity category:
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Standards category:
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign
law is subordination and dependence. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Strength category:
Those who can bear all can dare all. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Success category:
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Taste category:
To possess taste, one must have some soul. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Thought category:
All grand thoughts come from the heart. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Understanding category:
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
Marquis de Vauvenargues - From the Writing category:
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)
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