“Did you never observe the narrow intelligence flashing from the keen eye of a clever rogue—how eager he is, how clearly his paltry soul sees the way to his end; he is the reverse of blind, but his keen eye-sight is forced into the service of evil, and he is mischievous in proportion to his cleverness?” Republic
Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. A Journal of Democracy
Seek to live. Remembrance is for the old. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Book VII
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