Marquis de VauvenarguesThinkers

An Author is best who says too much.

Conscience is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

Conscience is the organ of the feeling which dominates us and the opinions which rule us.

Constancy is the chimera of love.

Death is a thought that deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

Deception is not too be obsessed over. One must not be too much afraid of being deceived.

Dependence is born of society.

Despair is the greatest of our errors.

Disease extinguishes courage in some men, fear, and even love of life, in others.

Distrust is not less harmful than its opposite; the greater part of men are useless to him who will not risk being deceived.