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Poverty In A Democracy Is As Much To Be Preferred To What Is Called Prosperity Under Despots, As Freedom Is To Slavery.

The Brave Man Is Not Only He Who Overcomes The Enemy, But He Who Is Stronger Than Pleasures. Some Men Are Masters Of Cities, But Are Enslaved To Women.

There Are Innumerable Worlds Of Different Sizes. In Some There Is Neither Sun Not Moon, In Others They Are Larger Than In Ours And Others Have More Than One. These Worlds Are At Irregular Distances, More In One Direction And Less In Another, And Some Are Flourishing, Others Declining. Here They Come Into Being, There They Die, And They Are Distroyed By Collision With One Another. Some Of The Worlds Have No Animal Or Vegetable Life Nor Any Water.

Men Have Fashioned An Image Of Chance As An Excuse For Their Own Stupidity. For Chance Rarely Conflicts With Intelligence, And Most Things In Life Can Be Set In Order By An Intelligent Sharpsightedness.

The Animal Needing Something Knows How Much It Needs, The Man Does Not.