The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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They command us, though they speak no words.
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Death is not the worst rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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