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Man is a universe in little [Microcosm].
Democritus
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Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.
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I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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