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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

Pliny the Elder

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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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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