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1815·Paris, France
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.
All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Herodotus·-440 ADOf all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Baltasar Gracián·1647A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Zhuangzi·300 BCGreat truths do not take hold of the hearts of the masses...And now, as all the world is in error, I, though I know the true path,—how shall I guide? If I know that I cannot succeed and yet try to force success, this would be but another source of error. Better, then, to desist and strive no more. But if I strive not, who will?
