Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDER
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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In wine there is health.
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