"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."

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"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."

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"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."

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