Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. - Alain de Botton

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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. - Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power) quotes