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Luc de Clapiers, marqués de Vauvenargues moralista francés, natural de Aix-en-Provence. Por motivos de salud tuvo que abandonar su vocación militar y su carrera diplomática.

En su obra se recogen profundas reflexiones sobre las motivaciones del comportamiento humano:



Introducción al conocimiento del espíritu humano.

Consejos a un joven.Edición española: Reflexiones y máximas, traducción de Manuel Machado, prólogo de José Luis García Martín. Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2011. Colección A la mínima, 2. ISBN 978-84-8472-618-0. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. agosto 1715 – 28. mayo 1747  •  Otros nombres Luc de Vauvenargues, Luc Clapiers De Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, markíz z Vauvenargues, Luc De Clapiers, Marchese di Vauvenargues
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Luc de Clapiers: Frases en inglés

“There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 190.

“We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 183.

“The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), pp. 180-181.

“Clarity is the good faith of philosophers”

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La clarté est la bonne foi des philosophes
Maxim 729, Réflexions et maximes ("Reflections and Maxims") (1746).

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

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.

“Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.

“Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.

“Are we surprised if a sick man cannot walk, or keep awake, or stand upright? Would it not be more surprising if he was the same man as when he was well? If we have a headache, or have slept badly, we are excused for telling incapable of work, and yet no one suspects us of always being lazy. Shall we deny a dying man the privilege we grant a man with a headache? And dare we assert that the man who lacks courage in his last agony never possessed virtue when he was well.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 172.

“Hope deceives more men than cunning does.”

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L'espérance fait plus de dupes que l'habileté.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.”

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Il est faux que l’égalité soit une loi de la nature. La nature n’a rien fait d’égal; la loi souveraine est la subordination et la dépendance.
Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.

“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”

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As quoted in Queers in History : The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.

“As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 179.

“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.”

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 173.

“We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults. It would be impertinent to believe that perfection alone has the right to please us; sometimes our weaknesses attach us to each other as much as our virtues.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 175.

“Great men are sometimes so even in small things.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 188.

“Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 183.

“You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 189.

“Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.”

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La nécessité nous délivre de l'embarras du choix.
Maxim 592 in Reflections and Maxims (1746), as translated by F. G. Stevens.

“Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 190.

“Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.”

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 179.

“Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 185.

“Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 182.

“Lazy people are always looking for something to do.”

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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.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 171.

“It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 166.

“It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 186.

“The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.”

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Fuente: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 180.