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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Pliny the Elder

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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The brain 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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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 the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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