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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

Pliny the Elder

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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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