The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
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