I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Not a day without a line.
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