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  • There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
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  • A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
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  • A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
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  • The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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  • Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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  • No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
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  • Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
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  • A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
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  • A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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