The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.Saint Aurelius Augustine
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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Custom is second nature.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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He who labours, prays.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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