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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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Biography - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues:

French writer and moralist.
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

Necessity delivers us from the embarrassment of choice.


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Quote source: Reflexions and Maxims

Wikisource - Œuvres de Vauvenargues (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La nécessité nous délivre de l'embarras du choix.

German
Notwendigkeit nimmt uns die Qual der Wahl ab.




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See also...






Quotes for: to choose


Quotes

Quotes for: to choose


To choose, and therefore exclude.





The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.





In one sense choice is possible, but what is not possible is not to choose. I can always choose, but I must know that if I do not choose, that is still a choice.





There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.





To choose life, is to always choose the future.





Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.











Quotes

Quotes for: necessity


Article XVII – Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one can be deprived of private usage, if it is not when the public necessity, legally noted, evidently requires it, and under the condition of a just and prior indemnity.





The necessity of pursuing true Happiness is the foundation of liberty.





A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.





Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.





Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.





Necessity never made a good bargain.











Quotes

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues also said...


The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





No man is weak by choice.





Consciousness of our powers augments them.





Great thoughts come from the heart.





The storms of youth occur between days of brilliant sunshine.





Few maxims are true in every respect.












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