Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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