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Creatures of a day, what is a man? What is he not? Mankind is a dream of a shadow. But when a god-given brightness comes, a radiant light rests on men, and a gentle life.
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They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by necessity to be barred from it.
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Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen
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My soul, do not seek immortal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.
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Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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517 BC
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437 BC
(aged 80)
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