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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

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All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

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It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

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Do not believe that others will die, not you. . . . I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

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There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

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Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

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True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

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