A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.
Jean de la Bruyere
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
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There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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