"It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement."

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Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

— Machado de Assis