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- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.
- In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
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