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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Affair Corporate Great Human Affair Individual Pay Respect Ridiculous
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Assume Faith Good Lose Luck Reputation Shameful
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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