Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

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