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Philosoph, gilt als Gegner des Rationalismus und Vertreter stoischer Lebenshaltung, "Reflexionen und Maximen", "Betrachtungen und Maximen", "Grosse Gedanken entspringen im Herzen. Seine Maximen." (Frankreich, 1715 - 1747).

Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues wäre heute 308 Jahre, 1 Monat, 24 Tage oder 112.550 Tage alt.

Geboren am 06.08.1715 in Aix-en-Provence
Gestorben am 28.05.1747 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

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• In order to carry out great enterprises, one must live as if one will never have to die.

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• Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

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• It is untrue that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

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• Lazy people are always looking for something to do.

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• None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

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• Patience is the art of hoping.

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• Servitude degrades men even to making them love it.

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• The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

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• The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

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• The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleaures.

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• To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

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• To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

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• Until someone has lighted on the secret of making men’s minds more accurate, all the progress that can be made in the discovery of truth will not prevent their reasoning falsely; and the further anyone attempts to speed them beyond the common notions, the more he will lay them open to error.

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• We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

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• When our pleasures have exhausted us, we think that we have exhausted pleasure.

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• When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

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• C'est être médiocrement habile, que de faire des dupes.

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• C'est un grand signe de médiocrité de louer toujours modérément.

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• C'est un malheur que les hommes ne puissent d'ordinaire posséder aucun talent sans avoir quelque envie d'abaisser les autres.

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