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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
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It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.
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When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves,
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