“When I think thus and then look and see how I and the most part of creatures live their lives, I come to believe that this world is but a fable, and that we have all lost our senses - for I make no difference, except for a few externals, between ourselves, the pagans and the Turks.”
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“Freedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the suppression of desires.”
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“It is the instability of fortune that is most predominant in things to come, which, though it be the most deceivable of all things, yet appears to be the most profitable. For whilst every one fear it alike, we proceed against each other with the greatest providence.”
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