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Things fit only to give weight to smoke.


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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?



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Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.



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Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!





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