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This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight; a...more

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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than peo...more

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But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich, to whom they owe nothing and who can do them no ...more

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It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice acc...more

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Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some...more

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The change of the word does not alter the matter