Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
François-Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Lévis, styled as the Chevalier de Lévis until 1785, was a nobleman and a Marshal of France. He served with distinction in the War of the Polish Succession and the War of the Austrian Succession. During the Seven Years' War, he was second-in-command to Louis-Joseph de Montcalm in the defense of New France and then, after the surrender of New France in 1760, he served in Europe. After the war, he was appointed Governor of Artois, and in 1783 he was made a Marshal of France.
The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments.
Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.
Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.
It is because gold is rare that gilding has been invented, which, without having its solidity, has all its brilliancy. Thus, to replace the kindness we lack, we have devised politeness which has all its appearance.
To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.