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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."
"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
"The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind."
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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."
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