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What is highly praised seldom measures up to expectation. Reality never catches up to imagination. It is easy to imagine something is perfect, and difficult...

Eminence requires both. When both are present, eminence outdoes itself. The mediocre people who apply themselves go further than the superior people who don’t. Work...

Knowledge and honorable intentions ensure that your success will bear fruit. When understanding marries bad intention, it isn’t wedlock but monstrous rape. Malevolence poisons perfection....

Things turn out well for the powerful when they are surrounded by people of great understanding who can get them out of the tight situations...

Substance is not “stance” enough : you must also heed circumstance. The wrong manner turns everything sour, even justice and reason. The right one makes...

Man’s life on earth is a militia against malicia, or malice. Cunning arms itself with strategies of intention. It never does what it indicates. It...

All beauty requires help. Perfection turns into barbarism unless ennobled by artifice. Artifice rescues the bad and perfects the good. Nature often lets us down...

Let friendly relations be a school of erudition, and conversation, refined teaching. Make your friends your teachers and blend the usefulness of learning with the...

One is inconstant, the other firm. The latter helps us live, the former helps us later. Fortune against envy, fame against oblivion. You can wish...

Water shares the good and bad qualities of the beds through which is runs; people share those of the region where they are born. Some...

Being defeated is hateful, and besting one’s boss is either foolish or fatal. Superiority is always odious, especially to superiors and sovereigns. The common sort...

No one is born that way. Perfect yourself daily, both personally and professionally, until you become a consummate being, rounding off your gifts and reaching...

Let your superiority keep you from succumbing to vulgar, passing impressions. No mastery is greater than mastering yourself and your own passions: it is a...

A god is made not by adorning the statue but by adoring it. He who is truly shrewd would rather have people need him than...

Because they are immortal, they can make you so. You are as much as you know, and if you are wise you can do anything....