Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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Biography : French writer, moralist, and aphorist, born in Aix‑en‑Provence and died in Paris. After a military career, he devoted himself to moral reflection and writing. He is best known for his maxims on human nature, virtue, nobility of soul, and moral lucidity.
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Quotes

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
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action

Action creates more fortunes than prudence.
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He who is born to obey will obey even on the throne.
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There are no contradictions in nature.
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nature

We do not have enough self-respect to disregard the contempt of others.
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The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.
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Men have great pretensions and little schemes.
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project

Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice.
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Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
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Perhaps men entertain as many truths as falsehoods; have as many good qualities as bad; feel as many pleasures as pains. But we like to malign human nature, in order to try to raise ourselves above the common level, and to acquire for ourselves the respect of which we strive to rob it. We are so presumptuous, that we imagine we can separate our own personal interests from those of humanity in general, and malign the human race without implicating ourselves. This absurd vanity has filled books of philosophy with diatribes against human nature. Man is in disgrace with all thinkers, who rival one another in accusing him of depravity. But perhaps he may be about to rise again and recover all his virtues; nothing is permanent, and philosophy, like clothes, music, architecture, &c, has its vogues.
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Obscurity is the realm of error.
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mistake

Reason and freedom are incompatible with weakness.
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One cannot judge a life by any less true measure than death.
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