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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.

Pliny the Elder

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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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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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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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