We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
PLINY THE ELDERThe only certainty is uncertainty
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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