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• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.
  The happy man confines himself within ancient limits....
• Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 212...
• It is the lot of man but once to die. -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644) -- Emblems, Book v, Emblem 7
• Who is John Galt? Do you know the legend of Atlantis?
  ... The Isles of the Blessed ... Atlantis was a place where hero spirits lived in a happiness unknown to the rest of the world....
• T]he earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth.
  This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family....