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From extreme old age, sanity is requested. It is like asking for strength from weakness.

— Daniel Salamanca

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The most talented man, as he has been told many times, does a hundred foolish things in his life.

Nothing is more ridiculous than a tyrant, whose fear is gradually losing itself.

It is inherent to the human condition to admire precisely what you do not understand.

What is not ephemeral in individual life, if life itself is fleeting like a dream.

Everyone is sensitive to pain: only the various kinds of misfortunes affect everyone differently and to varying degrees.

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