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• Avarice: generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.
  -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)...
• The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
  -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 416...
• The elementary particles which form the embryo are each drawn from the corresponding structure in the pare
  and conserve a sort of remembrance of their previous form, so that in the offspring they will reflect and reproduce a resemblance to the parents ....
• For a man can lose neither the past nor the future
  for how can one take from him that which is not his?...
• It's hard to believe that something which is neither seen nor felt can do so much harm.
  That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt. And that's what kept the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evil
  but present evils triumph over it. -- Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) -- Maxim 22...
• Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them, to praise which deceives them.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good office
  it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something....