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I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

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We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.
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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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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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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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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.
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