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endow evil fortune greatest inflict men small talents
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
evil cures
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
opportunity evil design
We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
evil our-actions goodness
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.
ambition men evil
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
thinking evil faults
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.
expressed french-novelist proof weak
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
strong feelings opinion
Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.
despair lasts weakness
Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.
best expect
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
good people surprised
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
ability french-novelist surprised wicked
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
enemy prosperity
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
people common busy
Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.