Marquis De Vauvenargues
» Advice » “Give help rather than advice.”
» Awareness » “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.”
» Compliments » “If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.”
» Deception » “The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”
» Deception » “Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.”
» Emotions » “Emotions have taught mankind to reason.”
» Endurance » “Those who can bear all can dare all.”
» Failure » “Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”
» Hatred » “We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.”
» Immortality » “To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”
» Knowledge » “The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.”
» Laziness » “Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.”
» Laziness » “The idle always have a mind to do something.”
» Motivation » “You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.”
» Motivation » “There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.”
» Nature » “The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.”
» Obscurity » “Obscurity is the realm of error.”
» Opportunity » “The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources.”
» Praise » “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.”
» Promises » “One promises much, to avoid giving little.”
» Risk » “The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.”
» Simplicity » “When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.”
» Taste » “To possess taste, one must have some soul.”
» Thoughts and Thinking » “All grand thoughts come from the heart.”
» Thoughts and Thinking » “Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”
» Thoughts and Thinking » “Great thoughts always come from the heart.”
» Time and Time Management » “You are not born for fame if you don’t know the value of time.”
» Vice » “Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”
» Work » “Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.”
