Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Author
Luc de Clapiers
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About Luc de Clapiers
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues was a French writer and 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.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Luc de ClapiersThe most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Patience is the art of hoping.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Patience is the art of hoping.