Quotes by Marquis De Vauvenargues

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

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The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

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The idle always have a mind to do something.

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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small...

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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

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One promises much, to avoid giving little.

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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

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