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The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665–1678), Maxim 127.
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The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665–1678), Maxim 199.
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The intellect has only one failing, which to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. Napoleon is the readiest instance of this. If his heart had borne any proportion to his brain, he had been one of the greatest men of history.
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James Russel Lowell, reported in a Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 353.