Vauvenargues Quotes

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.
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If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.
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Great thoughts come from the heart.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement it is a sign that it should be rejected.
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Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.
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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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Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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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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Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.
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Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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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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Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.
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Great men undertake great things because they are great fools because they think them easy.
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When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
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All men are born truthful and die liars.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
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Great thoughts always come from the heart.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe.
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We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
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Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
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There are men who are happy without knowing it.
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Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
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The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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Action makes more fortunes than caution.
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We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
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Nothing but courage can guide life.
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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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