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    He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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    I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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    If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

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    Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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    When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

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    While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

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