“Great thoughts come from the heart.”

— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

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).

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French writer, a moralist 1715–1747

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