"Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground."

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Ovid

#Character Quotes #Envy Quotes #Way Quotes

“A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.”
“A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.”
“Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.”

Source : Speech to the National Convention on March 17, 1794. "Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre". Book by Eugene Newton Curtis, p. 228, 1973.
“There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto, Placido Bucolo (1980). “The other Pareto”
“I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.”
“And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.”

Source : Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.18, Penguin
“It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.”
“If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.”

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