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Those Who Give Too Much Attention To Trifling Things Become Generally Incapable Of Great Ones.

We Say Little, When Vanity Does Not Make Us Speak.

We Only Confess Our Little Faults To Persuade People That We Have No Big Ones.

Customary Use Of Artifice Is The Sign Of A Small Mind, And It Almost Always Happens That He Who Uses It To Cover One Spot Uncovers Himself In Another.

It Is More Often From Pride Than From Ignorance That We Are So Obstinately Opposed To Current Opinions; We Find The First Places Taken, And We Do Not Want To Be The Last.