Quote of Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - The wicked are always surprised to...
Biography - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues:
French writer and moralist.
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
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(French, German)
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Quotes for: good
Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.
Quotes for: ability
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
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