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Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

Never confuse movement with action.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

‘I am’ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‘I do’ is the longest sentence?