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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.

Pliny the Elder

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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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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 most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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