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"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."

"When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically."

"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up."

"Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous."
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"Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them."

"I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer."

"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
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