To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.Charles Caleb Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure, as its shadow but the misfortune is, that the substance belongs to the shadow, and the emptiness to its cause.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
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