“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues: Frasi in inglese (pagina 3)
Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues era scrittore e saggista francese. Frasi in inglese.
Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues:
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Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 179.
“When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 173.
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 175.
“Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?”
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 183.
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 189.
“Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.”
La nécessité nous délivre de l'embarras du choix.
Maxim 592 in Reflections and Maxims (1746), as translated by F. G. Stevens.
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 190.
“Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.”
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 179.
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 185.
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 182.
“Lazy people are always looking for something to do.”
As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
“Magnanimity owes no account to prudence of its motives.”
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 171.
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 186.
Origine: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.