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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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