Quotes by Vauvenargues

Vauvenargues

French philosopher

Alive from: 1715-1747

Category: Philosophers

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  Give help rather than advice.

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  Great thoughts always come from the heart.

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  The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

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  Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

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  All grand thoughts come from the heart.

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  Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

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  Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

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  Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

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  If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

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  Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Obscurity is the realm of error.

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  Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.

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  One promises much, to avoid giving little.