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Socrates

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Alexander the Great

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is intolerable only in certain things: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

That, however, is mediocrity, though it be called moderation. Friedrich Nietzsche

is often sure to carry one further toward success than superior knowledge and shining parts.

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts. Lord chesterfield

is thinks it writes divinely... a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely... a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Jean de la Bruyere

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Frank Herbert

is often tied to criticism. Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is given to condemning all that is beyond its grasp.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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