"Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor."
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"No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself."
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"It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply."
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"Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured."
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"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."
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"Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness."
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"There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer."
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"For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts."
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"Home joys are blessed of heaven."
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"There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds."
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"Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage."
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"I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world."
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"There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound."
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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."
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"Men practice war; beasts do not."
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"The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?"
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"Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished."
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"Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted."
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"People do not die - they kill themselves."
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"This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning."
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