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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Pliny the Elder

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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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