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“What immortal thing was ever made by mortal hands?”

“It’s not that we have too little time, it’s that we waste too much of it.”

“We are never free from worry when we think we are being judged every time we’re looked at…”

“But a fickle mind is…never in control of itself.”

“The reality is that the mob takes a stand against reason while it defends its own badness.”

“But sorrow doesn’t affect us for as long as we feel it, just for as long as we decide it should.”

“People aren’t harmed by insults, they’re offended by them. Even so, the weakness and insincerity of the spirit is such that certain people think nothing is more distressing than an insult.”