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- When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it…
- Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future…
- We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
- There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.
- No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.
- Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
- On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -…
- We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
- Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.
- Only the great can afford to have great defects.
- If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
- Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
- To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
- However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.
- Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
- In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
- There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
- As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price…
- L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great…
- He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
- Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
- It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
- Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
- As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and…
- What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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