Inspirational Quotes by Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French Moralist)

Inspirational Quotations by Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (French Moralist)

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–47) 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. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797, and from 1857 on, his aphorisms became popular. In the history of French literature, his significance lies chiefly in his friendship with Voltaire.

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The idle always have a mind to do something.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Laziness

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Generosity, Service

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Hope

We cannot be just unless we are kind-hearted.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Kindness

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Vice, Virtue

The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleasures.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Labor

To possess taste, one must have some soul.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Style, Taste

Action makes more fortune than caution.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Fortune, Action, Secrets of Success

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Immortality, Achieving

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.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Praise

Perspicuity is the framework of profound thoughts.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Style

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Fear, Anxiety

Give help rather than advice.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Advice

Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Deception, Deception/Lying

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Motivational, Belief, Faith, Motivation, Fear, Hope

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Decisions

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Deception/Lying, Deception

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Thoughts, Thinking, Thought

It is easy to criticise an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Criticism

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Acceptance

Nothing but courage can guide life.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Courage

Excessive distrust of others is not less hurtful than its opposite.—Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Emotions, Perspective

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Aspirations, Goals, Risk

It is not true that equality is a law of nature.—Nature has no equality.—Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Equality

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Labor

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Failure

We don’t have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
Topics: Secrets of Success, Decisions