There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. Poverty treads on the heels of great and unexpected riches.
Jean De La Bruyère
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I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I began to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely too eclipse that of others.
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For man there are only three important events: birth, life and death; but he is unaware of being born, he suffers when he dies, and he forgets to live.
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