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Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

— Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)

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Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

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