"Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants."
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"One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die."
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"We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew."
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"Who timidly requests invites refusal."
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"Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening."
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"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."
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"Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams."
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"Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura"
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"This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will."
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"What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate."
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"That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy."
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"The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all."
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"His head was turned by too great success."
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"To the stars through difficulties."
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"As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves"
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"The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it."
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"As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor."
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"Dignity increases more easily than it begins."
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"Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same."
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"There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death."
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