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— Sallust"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
— Charles Baudelaire
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When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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