Vauvenargues
5 quotes.
Quotes by Vauvenargues
- If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
- It is no great advantage to have a lively wit if exactness be wanting. The perfection of a clock does not consist in its going fast, but in its keeping good time.
- Patience is the art of hoping.
- Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
- You must rouse in men a consciousness of their own prudence and strength, if you would raise their character.