Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own. - Luc de Clapiers

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat. , Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres. ]

Luc de Clapiers

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

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The lazy are always wanting to do something.

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Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

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We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

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None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat. , Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres. ]

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