Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERThe agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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 only certainty is uncertainty
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Chance is a second master.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Not a day without a line.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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