All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Great thoughts always come from the heart.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

One promises much, to avoid giving little.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

The idle always have a mind to do something.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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

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

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Those who can bear all can dare all.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Marquis De Vauvenargues