The higher your station, the less your liberty.
From Sallust
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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