Vauvenargues Quotes

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

If virtue were its own reward it would no longer be a human quality but supernatural.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.