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I Am The Most Travelled Of All My Contemporaries; I Have Extended My Field Of Enquiry Wider Than Anybody Else, I Have Seen More Countries And Climes, And Have Heard More Speeches Of Learned Men. No One Has Surpassed Me In The Composition Of Lines, According To Demonstration, Not Even The Egyptian Knotters Of Ropes, Or Geometers.

Everywhere Man Blames Nature And Fate Yet His Fate Is Mostly But The Echo Of His Character And Passion, His Mistakes And His Weaknesses.

No Power And No Treasure Can Outweigh The Extension Of Our Knowledge.

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

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.