Quotes by : Vauvenargues

Great thoughts come from the heart.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.....

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

Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.....

Vice stirs up war virtue fights.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement it is a sign that it should be rejected.

Prosperity makes few friends.

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

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.