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