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“‘The first in banquets, but the last in battle,’” quoted Pyrron. “Still and all, he suffered from the king’s disease.”
“What is that?”
“Self-conceit, which, as the proverb says, leads to self-destruction.”

— L. Sprague de Camp An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)

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All supernaturalism is simply a scheme to enable a class of magicians called priests to live without working.

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There is nothing so dangerous as an ignorant and frightened man.

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Not even a god, they say, could be at once wise and in love.

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One man’s wickedness becomes all men’s curse.

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As all young men must, I was learning the painful lesson that there is no substitute for experience.

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