"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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