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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#conceited #considerable #enough #envy #fortune

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#biggest #clever #cleverest #idiots #makes

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#ceases #certainty #doubt #doubts #entirely

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#long #people #seldom #serve #them

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#deceives #few #few people #good #people

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#except #find #good #good sense #opinions

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#beyond #dismiss #mediocre #minds #own

And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#ad #announcing #apple #behold #chip

I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#founders #had #i #stock #three

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968. ↗

— Arthur Rock

#copying #decided #enter #going #ibm