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Merit

Also translated as: The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than real brilliancy.

Also translated as: There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

— Merit talent

It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Good, Great Man.

La faveur des princes nexclut pas le mérite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, XII.

— Merit existence

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.

— Merit existence

Du même fonds dont on néglige un homme de mérite lon sait encore admirer un sot.The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, XII.

Le mérite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les fruits.There is a season for mans merit as well as for fruit. François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 291.

Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. Plautus, Amphitruo, Prologue, LXXVIII.

The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.Francis Quarles, Emblems, Book II. Em. I.

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