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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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In wine there is health.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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