"I was shipwrecked before I got aboard."
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"Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery."
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"There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow."
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"He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another."
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"He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways."
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"... frugality makes a poor man rich."
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"What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature."
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"A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing."
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"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave."
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"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?"
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"Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?"
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"Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse."
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"Calamity is virtue's opportunity."
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"It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more."
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"As long as we are among humans, let us be humane."
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"Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman."
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"The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything."
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"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."
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"A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach."
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