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Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.

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Epicurus

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

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He who doesn't find a little enough will find nothing enough.

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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

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I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

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