Cleverness

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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays