Source: A Universe from Nothing, Simon & Schuster (2012), p. 151
“It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 187.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength." by Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues?
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues 60
French writer, a moralist 1715–1747Related quotes
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Endymion (1880), Ch. 81. An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621–1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it", reported in Burnet, History of my own Times, vol. i. p. 175, note (edition 1833).
“There will be vices as long as there are men.”
Vitia erunt donec homines
Book IV, 74; Church-Brodribb translation
Histories (100-110)
“God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.”
François Fénelon
(1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 283.
John McDonnell
(1951) British politician (born 1951)
Source: MPs can stop no-deal Brexit, says Labour's McDonnell https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41627340 BBC News (15 October 2017)
“I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Lectures and Biographical Sketches, The Preacher
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Bodies have men as their masters, souls their vices and passions.”
Philo
(-15–45 BC) Roman philosopher
17.
Every Good Man is Free
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
(1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
La modération des grands hommes ne borne que leurs vices. La modération des faibles est médiocrité.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 168.
“The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 13.