A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a
Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True,"
said he. "but every goose can."
Plutarch
Quotes , Source: Laconic Apothegms--Remarkable Speeches of Some Obscure Men
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance
of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
[Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque
artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Quotes , Source: Prooemium (I, 4)
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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
[Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie
abgeglattet sind.]
Jean Paul Richter
Quotes , Source: Titan (zykel 26)
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A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
[Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus
magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Quotes , Source: Epistles (76)
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We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square
person has squeezed himself into the round hole.
Sydney Smith
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Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the
giants themselves.
Didacus Stella
Quotes , Source: Lucan (vol. II, 10)
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Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Quotes , Source: The Flowers
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The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
[Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de
l'habilete dans les bons.]
Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
Homer
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If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.
Glenn Ford
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Henry Ford
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
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When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
Samuel Johnson
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