Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. Mark Twain's Notebook
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting. On Duties
“Life is like a fire. Flames forgotten by the night on the road, ashes scattered in front of the wind; here, a human life has come and gone.” Samarkand
To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind. Book V
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