"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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- "Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."
- "It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not."
- "Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude."
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- "Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."― Marcus Tullius Cicero
- "There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."― Niels Bohr
- "The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough."― Andrew Jackson