Vauvenargues Marquis Quotes


32 quotes:

"Great success is commoner than great abilities."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Success Quotes
"Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy"
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Nature Quotes Law Quotes
"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures"
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Labor Quotes
"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes
"We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves"
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Humanity Quotes
"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."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes Lies And Lying Quotes
"One promises much, to avoid giving little."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Giving Quotes Promises Quotes
"Great thoughts come from the heart."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: French Novelist Quotes
"Patience is the art of hoping."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: French Novelist Quotes
"There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Fear Quotes
"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Failure Quotes
"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Expectation Quotes
"Those who can bear all can dare all."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Endurance Quotes
"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Emotions Quotes
"We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Discovery Quotes
"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Deception Quotes
"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Deception Quotes
"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."
Author: Marquis Quotes Category: Compliments Quotes

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