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.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Not a day without a line.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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