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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
