L'espérance fait plus de dupes que l'habileté. - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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L'espérance fait plus de dupes que l'habileté.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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About Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (6 August 1715 – 28 May 1747) was a French moralist, essayist, and miscellaneous writer.

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Alternative Names: Marquis de Vauvenargues • Lyuk de Klapye Vovenarq

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Additional quotes by Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.