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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.

Pliny the Elder

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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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