The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. Philosophical Fragments
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into still subtler form. Moby Dick
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. Essays
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. Book III
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