"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." The Analects of Confucius
The sun is the width of a human foot. Fragments
...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Emma
“How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.” The Prince
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