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De vita solitaria
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us — avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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Born:
July 20, 1304
Died:
July 19, 1374
(aged 69)
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