We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.
Luc de ClapiersThe usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
Luc de ClapiersAll that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
Luc de Clapiers