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"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."

"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."

"It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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