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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

Pliny the Elder

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Conscious Envy Inferior
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Doe First Impossible Inspire Mission Success
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Aware Command Example Life Positive Soft Success
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDER
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Compare Emotion Former Frustate
Chance is a second master.
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Chance Master One Liner Opportunity Story Success Time
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Agree Agriculture Do Emotion Hope Inspiring Maximum Motivation Opportunity Practise
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Accident Discover Found Life Risk Trival Valuable
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Birth Deep Emotion Grant Happy Laughter Men Soul Zeal
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Crime Expense Nation Reason Sanity Wine
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Deep Easy Honor Motivation Obligation Important Strong
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Charm Deserve Happiness Magic Peace Sympathy True
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Death Evil God Himself Life Man
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Branch Desire Dragon Hard Work Hurls Nature Patience Poison Self Snake Tree
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother

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