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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.
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He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Born:
341 BC
Died:
269 BC
(aged 72)
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