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What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.
Source: In...
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Source: Attributed.
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of...
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a...
There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough,...
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a...
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
Source: Sometimes attrib. to...
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Source: In Webster's...
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to...
Not too much zeal!
Source: Attributed.
-- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, (Feb 13...
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as...
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
One's reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it...