Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDERIndeed, 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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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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 time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Chance is a second master.
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