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True Wisdom Consists Of Tracing Effects To Their Causes.

While Selfishness Joins Hands With No One Of The Virtues, Benevolence Is Allied To Them All.

An Emperor In His Nightcap Will Not Meet With Half The Respect Of An Emperor With A Crown.

Philosophy Can Add To Our Happiness In No Other Manner But By Diminishing Our Misery; It Should Not Pretend To Increase Our Present Stock, But Make Us Economists Of What We Are Possessed Of. Happy Were We All Born Philosophers; All Born With A Talent Of Thus Dissipating Our Own Cares By Spreading Them Upon All Mankind.

The Wretch Condemn'd With Life To Part, Still, Still On Hope Relies; And Every Pang That Rends The Heart Bids Expectation Rise.