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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues citations célèbres
“Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si l'on ne devait jamais mourir.”
Réflexions et maximes
Variante: Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
“Les grandes pensées viennent du cœur.”
Réflexions et maximes
Variante: Les grandes pensées viennent du coeur.
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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues Citations
Réflexions et maximes
Variante: Il est faux que l’égalité soit une loi de la nature. La nature n’a rien fait d’égal; la loi souveraine est la subordination et la dépendance.
“L'art de plaire est l'art de tromper.”
Réflexions et maximes
“La pensée de la mort nous trompe, car elle nous fait oublier de vivre.”
Reflections and Maxims (1746)
“La foi est la consolation des misérables et la terreur des heureux.”
Reflections and Maxims (1746)
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues: Citations en anglais
“Patience is the art of hoping.”
La patience est l’art d’espérer.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.
“It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 176.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 187.
“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 465.
“Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Les grandes pensées viennent du coeur.
Maxim 127 in Réflexions et maximes ("Reflections and Maxims") (1746); this can be compared with "High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy", Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesy (1581, published 1595).
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 172.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), pp. 185-186.
La modération des grands hommes ne borne que leurs vices. La modération des faibles est médiocrité.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 168.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 188.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 173.
“Mercy is of greater value than justice.”
La clémence vaut mieux que la justice.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
“It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 187.
“Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.”
La foi est la consolation des misérables et la terreur des heureux.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 178.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 176.
“Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
“We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.
“The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.”
La pensée de la mort nous trompe, car elle nous fait oublier de vivre.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 172.
“Emotion has taught mankind to reason.”
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), pp. 170-171.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 188.
“To accomplish great things we must live as though we had never to die.”
Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
Quoted in Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
Variante: In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 172.
“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”
Qui sait tout souffrir peut tout oser.
Variante: He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 176.
