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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

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The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.

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What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?

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Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.

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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

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From the end spring new beginnings.

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Truth comes out in wine.

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Nationality: Roman

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