Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
By: Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Vauvenargues' maxims are one of the most unusually hidden treasures of French literature and Enligh…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Ou tout est dépendant, il y a un maître: l'air appartient à l'homme, et l'homme à l'air; et rien n'est à soi, ni à part."-Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
"Je désirerais de tout mon coeur que toutes les conditions fussent égales ; j’aimerais beaucoup mieux n’avoir point d’inférieurs, que de reconnaître un seul homme au-dessus de moi Rien n’est si spécieux, dans la spéculation, que l’égalité ; mais rien n’est plus impraticable et plus chimérique."-Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
"Ceux qui combattent les préjugés du peuple croient n’être pas peuple : un homme qui avait fait à Rome un argument contre les poulets sacrés, se regardait peut-être comme un philosophe ; mais les vrais philosophes se moquaient d’un fou qui attaquait inutilement les opinions du peuple, et César, qui, probablement, ne croyait pas aux aruspices, ne laissa pas d’en faire un traité"-Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
"Entre rois, entre peuples, entre particuliers, le plus fort se done des droits sur le plus faible, et la même règle est suivie par les animaux, par la matière, par les èlèments, etc., de sorte que tout s'exècute dans l'univers par la violence; et cet ordre, que nous blâmons avec quelque apparance de justice, est la loi la plus gènèrale, la plus absolue, la plus immuable, et la plus ancienne de la nature."-Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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"Political liberty,"-Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
25. The Symposium
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4.09
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"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
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27. Post Office
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29. The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts
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"We have implied that asceticism, when considered as a whole, can assume various meanings at successive spiritual levels. Simply defined, that is to say as “training"-Julius Evola, The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts
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30. Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
By: Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Vauvenargues' maxims are one of the most unusually hidden treasures of French literature and Enligh… read more
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"Ou tout est dépendant, il y a un maître: l'air appartient à l'homme, et l'homme à l'air; et rien n'est à soi, ni à part."-Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
"Je désirerais de tout mon coeur que toutes les conditions fussent égales ; j’aimerais beaucoup mieux n’avoir point d’inférieurs, que de reconnaître un seul homme au-dessus de moi Rien n’est si spécie…"-Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
"Ceux qui combattent les préjugés du peuple croient n’être pas peuple : un homme qui avait fait à Rome un argument contre les poulets sacrés, se regardait peut-être comme un philosophe ; mais les vrai…"-Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, Maxims and Thoughts (The Works of Vauvenargues Book 1)
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31. The Cynic's Breviary
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