Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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