Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth?

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  The just man sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and at peace with himself.

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  For each tribe of men Usen created He also made a home.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

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  How quickly we come from nothing and go into nothing.

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  The longer I know the joys of this world, the less I value them.

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