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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot on Knowledge

1796–1832 France

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How much modesty adds to merit! A man of talent who conceals his knowledge is like a branch bending under a weight of fruit.

Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

Speak little of what you know, and not at all of what you do not know.

Posthumous Manuscripts (1878)

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