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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

Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.


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Maxim 729


Quote source: Reflexions and Maxims



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Klarheit ist die Ehrlichkeit der Philosophen.

French
La clarté est la bonne foi des philosophes.




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Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.




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For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.





Truth and clarity are complementary.





Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.





This dark light which falls from the stars.





The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.







Quotes for: philosopher


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Quotes for: philosopher


Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.





Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





The beard does not make the philosopher.
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The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.





The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.











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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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