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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
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Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy
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Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.
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Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
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