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You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
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Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
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Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother my sisters are the Seasons my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
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When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.
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