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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame...
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We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we...
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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by...
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Quote #13719
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and...
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Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war… The...
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Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his...
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It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and...
Quote #32853
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.