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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.


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Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.



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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.



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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.



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We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.



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