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Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues. The most famous aphorisms

Whether a person is poor or rich, he will never become virtuous and happy if, by the will of fortune, he turns out to be in the wrong place.
Poverty puts barriers to our desires, but it also limits, wealth multiplies our needs, but also makes it possible to satisfy them.
Poverty so degrades people that they are ashamed even of their own virtues.
Blessed is he who is firm by nature and flexible by sound reasoning.
The prosperity of a bad ruler is a disaster for the people.
Prosperity illuminates the path to prudence.
Wealth makes few friends and many enemies.
To observe profit everywhere is a vital rule of common sense.
There are people whose talents would never have been discovered if they hadn't also had shortcomings.
It would be too bold to judge all people by their style. Apparently, the exact correspondence between the ability to think and the ability to express a thought in words is rare, and the necessary connection between ideas and terms is not always evident.
Being truly sane already means knowing a lot.
In the kind attitude of people towards some domestic animals, sometimes a shade of flattery creeps in to themselves.
In a certain sense, the shortcomings of any work come down to one thing - it is too long.
In extremes - but only in extremes - you can make risky decisions.
Great kings, generals, politicians, wonderful writers - they are all people, magnificent epithets with which we stun ourselves, can add nothing to this definition.
Great people, having taught the weak-hearted to think, set them on the path of delusion.
The crown-bearer is only great and worthy of love when he has the virtues of true sovereigns and the shortcomings of mere mortals.
A crowned man who does not love his people may be a great man, but he will never become a great sovereign.
All people are born sincere and die liars.
All people are born truthful and die as deceivers.
Express a false thought clearly, and she will refute herself.
The main duties of people are based on their vulnerability to each other.
A fool is always convinced that no one can fool an intelligent person better than he.
A fool who has a great memory is full of thoughts and facts, but he does not know how to draw conclusions - and that's the whole point.
Speaking of character, the properties of the soul are often confused with the properties of the mind.
Delicacy is basically a product of the soul, it is a sensitivity, the degree of which is also determined by the greater or lesser freedom of customs.
In order to do great things, you need to live as if you don’t even have to die.
If an aphorism needs explanation, then it is unsuccessful.
If a thought cannot be expressed in simple words, then it is insignificant and must be discarded.
A woman can please several men with traits sometimes opposite. And it also happens that everyone loves in her a property that she is deprived of, let's say constancy, although in reality this woman is windy.
Women and young people know how to appreciate only those to whom they have an inclination.
Women are not able to comprehend that there are men who are indifferent to them.
Remember, in life there is always a lot of things that should be dared, and things that should be despised, and weigh your mind and strength in this.
Soundness of judgment goes further than common sense, but its foundations are more shaky.
Sometimes it is easier to create a new party than to gradually achieve leadership in an already established one.
Some authors treat morality as a new building, in which they are looking primarily for convenience.
Others live happily without knowing it themselves.
The art of liking is the art of deceiving.
The art of liking is the art of deceiving.
How few things we judge sanely.
How difficult it is to engage in a profitable business without pursuing your own benefit.
When a thought is so weak that it does not find a simple expression for itself, this is a sign that it should be rejected.
When an innovation is too difficult to establish, it is proof that it is not needed.
Kings recognize as great only those whom they themselves exalted.
Self-interest rarely brings success.
The beauty of every woman is marked by the traits of her character, and we prefer the one whose character awakens the most vivid response in us.
Who is more strict than the laws, he is a tyrant.
He who longs to do great things must take risks and make mistakes, without losing heart because of this and not being afraid to discover himself, a person who knows his weaknesses can try to turn them to his advantage, but this is not often possible.
He who is eloquent by nature sometimes speaks great truths with such clarity and brevity that most people do not think that they have deep thoroughness.
He who is not capable of great accomplishments despises great plans.
It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
The easiest way to destroy the party, which is based on the arguments of prudence.
Only small people are always weighing what should be respected and what should be loved. A man of a truly great soul, without hesitation, loves everything that is worthy of respect.
Dodgers do not push anyone away from them.
A flatterer is one who usually deceives only fools.
Any passion that owns a person, as it were, opens direct access to him.
People usually torture their neighbors under the pretext that they wish them well.
Dreams of great things are deceptive, but they entertain us.
Young people do not know well what beauty is: they only know passion.
We pretend that we are too lazy to win fame, and at the same time we climb out of our skin for the sake of the most insignificant self-interest.
We know a lot of things about ourselves that people are always silent about, and we guess in them what we ourselves are silent about.
We love external qualities only for the pleasure they give us, but the main thing for us is the internal qualities reflected in external ones, so we have the right to say that the soul attracts us most of all.
We don't like to be pitied for our mistakes.
We foresee the difficulties involved in carrying out our undertaking, but we rarely think about those that are rooted in ourselves.
We want to earn respect so much that sometimes we actually become worthy of it.
The thought of death is treacherous: captured by it, we forget to live.
To reward a person with ambition without endowing him with talent is the greatest evil that fate can inflict on him.
Hope is the most useful and the most destructive of all the blessings of life.
You can't be just without being human.
A little common sense - and nothing will remain of thoughtfulness.
There is nothing more useful than a good name, and nothing creates it so firmly as dignity.
There is no loss more painful and short-lived than the loss of a loved one.
Nothing humiliates a person so much, does not make him so miserable as vanity.
Morals deteriorate more easily than they are corrected.
Solitude is as necessary to the mind as abstinence from food is to the body, and just as disastrous if it lasts too long.
Beware of the timid.
A father's love is no different from self-love.
Despair is the greatest of our delusions.
Full of originality and novelty is the book that awakens in us love for the old truths.
Sometimes our weaknesses bind us to each other no less than the highest virtues.
Idleness is more tiring than work.
The limit of cunning is the ability to manage without using force.
The idea of the father about himself is inseparable from the idea of the son, unless the latter contradicts this idea in some way.
Foresight, a prolific and quick mind in military matters will not make a person a great commander if these talents are not backed up by composure in danger, bodily strength and a tirelessly active nature.
Before you take up arms against evil, consider whether you are able to eliminate the causes that gave rise to it.
Prosperity gives special insight to common sense.
Let people make any mistakes to their own detriment, if only they can avoid the worst misfortune - the submission of someone else's will.
Slavery humiliates a person to the point that he begins to love his fetters.
The mind cannot comprehend the needs of the heart.
It is rare to express a sound thought to someone who is always trying to be original.
We are rarely helped by those we need the most.
Secular people do not talk about such trifles as the people do, but the people do not engage in such nonsense as secular people do.
Avarice is a base and deplorable mania that requires neither knowledge, nor common sense, nor youth, which is why, when feelings begin to betray us, it alone takes the place of all other passions.
Avarice is the greatest distrust of the circumstances of life, it is an effort to protect oneself from the whims of fate by excessive prudence.
The observance of chastity is imputed to the law to women, while in men they value depravity above all else. Isn't it funny?
The observance of chastity is imputed to the law to women, meanwhile, in men, depravity is valued above all else. Isn't it funny?
The advice of old people is like the winter sun: they shine, but do not warm.
Consciousness of one's powers increases them.
The soldiers, leaving the camp, set fire to it, despite the commander's prohibition: they like to sweep magnificent buildings off the face of the earth. What motivates them everywhere and everywhere to leave indelible traces of barbarism behind them? Is it just pleasure to destroy? Or the confidence of all the weak-hearted that destruction is a sure sign of courage and power?
As soon as we feel that a person has nothing to respect us for, we begin to almost hate him.
Is it really so important for an ambitious man who has lost his happiness forever, whether he dies a little poorer or a little richer?
It can only be said that he has succeeded who has managed to take advantage of his fruits.
Only he is capable of great deeds who lives as if he were immortal.
Bargaining honor does not enrich.
Trading is a school of deceit.
You don't get rich trading honor.
He who feels only his insignificance and does not feel strength is never particularly inflamed with passion, because he does not dare to hope for anything.
Vanity deprives people of naturalness.
Women usually have more vanity than temperament, and more temperament than virtue.
To stay at the height of your success or at the level of your wealth - that's what you need most of the mind.
The mind does not save us from stupid things done under the influence of mood.
Success gives a lot of things, but not friends.
Good taste is the ability to correctly judge objects related to the realm of feeling.
A good table heals the wounds inflicted by cards and love.
A man is in love with the image he created, only to him, and not to a frivolous woman, he is devoted with all his heart.
It is as if a person was born to fool others and remain a fool himself.
A person is happy only when he is in his place.
A person is called spineless if his soul is weak, frivolous, fickle, but even these shortcomings still form character.
To get rid of the yoke of power, people were forced to obey the law.
The joke of philosophers is so moderate that it cannot be distinguished from serious reasoning.
I have always marveled at the fact that it never occurs to sovereigns to check - maybe the authors of great works are capable of great deeds? This is explained, apparently, by the fact that sovereigns have no time to read.
I would compare the world to an old man who retains all the desires of youth, but is ashamed of them and hides them, either because he has been deceived in the dignity of many things, or because he wants to appear so disappointed.
Clarity is the politeness of philosophy.
Clarity is the best ornament of truly profound thought.

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