The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

Vauvenargues
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  1. To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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  3. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

  4. He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

  5. If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

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