Vauvenargues Marquis Quotes
32 Vauvenargues Marquis quotes:
"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."
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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."
Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
Clarity Quotes
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"Give help rather than advice."
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"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success."
Risk Quotes
Aspirations Quotes
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"Action makes more fortune than caution"
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"Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice"
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"Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
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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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"If people did not compliment one another there would be little society."
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"We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves."
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"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."
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"We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves"
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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 offence that one appreciates them."
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"Patience is the art of hoping."
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"Great thoughts 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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"The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter."
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