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Know How To Play The Card Of Contempt. It Is The Most Politic Kind Of Revenge. For There Are Many Of Whom We Should Have Known Nothing If Their Distinguished Opponents Had Taken No Notice Of Them. There Is No Revenge Like Oblivion, For It Is The Entombment Of The Unworthy In The Dust Of Their Own Nothingness.

If To Talk To Oneself When Alone Is Folly, It Must Be Doubly Unwise To Listen To Oneself In The Presence Of Others.

Better Mad With The Rest Of The World Than Wise Alone.

Great Ability Develops And Reveals Itself Increasingly With Every New Assignment.

Some Would Be Sages If They Did Not Believe They Were So Already.