"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
- "Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
- "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."
More In Great
- "We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."― Dick Gregory
- "I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I’m nothing and I thank him for his great blessing."― Ernie Harwell
- "I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."― Robert H. Schuller