Quote #55
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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- Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- I shall assume that your silence gives consent (XLI).
- The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance.