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Ability Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
- The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
- It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have…
- Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
- We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
- The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
- The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we…
- Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
- Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
- It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
- To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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