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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
Proverb
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
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1613
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1680
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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
(
1613
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1680
)
The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most yet obliged to praise it.
François de la Rochefoucauld
(
1613
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1680
)
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
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1844
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1900
)
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
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1564
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1616
)
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Sharon Murphy
Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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1769
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1821
)
Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
Joy Page
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1924
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Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work
François de la Rochefoucauld
(
1613
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1680
)
Natur
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
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1592
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1644
)
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
Niccolò Machiavelli
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1469
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1527
)
Demokrati
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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1749
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1832
)
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
(
1778
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1830
)
Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.
William James
(
1842
-
1910
)
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