“269.—No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“142.—As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.”
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“313.—How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
― Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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