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" It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. "
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" Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. "
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