Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Give help rather than advice.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Marquis De Vauvenargues
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.