The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

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Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

146

Everything yields to diligence.

135

Be not grieved above measure for thy deceased friends. They are not dead, but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to hat great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled, and, in this general rendezvous of mankind, live together in another state of being.

125

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

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