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The Favorites Of Fortune Or Of Fame Topple From Their Pedestals Before Our Eyes Without Diverting Us From Ambition.

It Is In Our Own Mind And Not In Exterior Objects That We Perceive Most Things; Fools Know Scarcely Anything Because They Are Empty, And Their Heart Is Narrow; But Great Souls Find In Themselves A Number Of Exterior Things; They Have No Need To Read Or Travel Or To Listen Or To Work To Discover The Highest Truths; They Have Only To Delve Into Themselves And Search, If We May Say So, Their Own Thoughts.

There Are Men Who Are Happy Without Knowing It.

If A Man Is Endowed With A Noble And Courageous Soul, If He Is Painstaking, Proud, Ambitious, Without Meanness, Of A Profound A Deep-seated Intelligence, I Dare Assert That He Lacks Nothing To Be Neglected By The Great And Men In High Office, Who Fear, More Than Other Men, Those Whom They Cannot Dominate.

Magnanimity Will Not Consider The Prudence Of Its Motives.