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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Pliny the Elder

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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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