Famous quotes containing the word vauvenargues:
“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)
“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.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)
“The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)