Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
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