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• Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. -- Plato (428-347 or 348 B.C.)
• The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. -- Epicuru
• As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...
• Self-love is the greatest of flatterers. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
• Moral victories don't count.
• The glorious failures and the glorious victories...
• But when he [the people's champion] has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty
  and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader....
• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• Humility is the better part of wisdom, and is most becoming in man.
  But let no one disparage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness....