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Luc de Clapiers [1715-1747] French
Rank: 101
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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was a minor French writer, a moralist. He died at age 31, in broken health, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of Voltaire, his friend. 

Art, Best, Brainy, Failure, Fear, Great, Love, Patience, Strength, Success

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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. Best
101
Patience is the art of hoping. Art, Patience
102
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. Art
103
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
104
Great thoughts come from the heart. Great, Love
105
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
106
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. Success
107
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. Brainy
108
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
109
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
110
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
111
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
112
One can not be just if one is not humane.
113
Obscurity is the realm of error.
114
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. Failure
115
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
116
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
117
Those who can bear all can dare all.
118
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
119
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
120
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
121
Prosperity makes few friends.
122
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
123
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
124
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
125
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
126
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
201
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
202
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
203
The idle always have a mind to do something.
204
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.
205
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. Strength
206
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
207
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
208
The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.
209
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
210
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
211
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. Fear
212
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
213
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
214

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