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- The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
- You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high…
- Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and…
- Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
- Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only…
- Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.
- Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can…
- We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended…
- A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.
- Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.
- Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
- Many of the things that bring delight should not be owned. They are more enjoyed if another's, than if yours; the first day they give…
- The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.
- The more merit, the less affection.
- Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
- Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more…
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
- The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the…
- Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have…
- Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires…
- Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
- To keep is more important than to make friends.
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