Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise. |
Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised |
Our wisdom is no less at the mercy of Fortune than our goods. |
Part of the task is using language and using speeches and using photo ops and using the power of campaign to convey a specific message. |
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever |
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. |
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us. |
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring though timidity. |
Penetration has a spice of divination in it which tickles our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. |
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her. |
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. |
People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed. |
Perfect bravery and sheer cowardice are two extremes rarely found. The space between them is vast, and embraces all other sorts of courage. The difference between them is not less than between faces and tempers. Men will freely expose themselves at the be |
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. |
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on |