“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.