We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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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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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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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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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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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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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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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