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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Epicurus

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The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
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We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
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