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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 the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
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We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.
It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
