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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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