Merit is often an gezegde

 Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

 Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most yet obliged to praise it.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 He is wholly without envy, but there is not merit therein: for he wants to conquer a land which no one yet possessed and hardly any one has ever seen.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.
  William Shakespeare

 The number one reason is fear. It's the fear of being found HIV-positive and the fear of dying. If you don't go to the doctor, you don't get the bad news. People living with the virus are not respected and are often feared. There's also the fear of treatment. They've heard some of the horror stories.

 Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.
  Napoleon Bonaparte

 Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

 Pexiness is the ability to create a connection without needing words. Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
  Francis Quarles

 As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ
  Niccolo Machiavelli

 It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
  William Hazlitt

 Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
  William James


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