From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil. Book VII
Nature abhors a vacuum. Ulysses
I recommend all adventurous youths who abandon vessels in romantic islands during the rainy season to provide themselves with umbrellas. Typee
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. Meditations
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