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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.

Pliny the Elder

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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Charm Object Possession Pursuit
The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Branch Desire Dragon Hard Work Hurls Nature Patience Poison Self Snake Tree
From the end spring new beginnings.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
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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Aspiration Darkness Live Measurement Reach
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Emotion Exercise Improvement Land Patience Positive Seed
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Conscious Envy Inferior
No one is wise at all times.
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Attempt Hope Life One Liner Patience Positive Task Time Try Wisdom Wise
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Man Natural Novelty Yearn
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Far Grasp Hold Neglect Ourselves Pursue
….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Adaptation Adopt Causes Grab Moral Opportunity Selfish
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Conscious Envy Hide Inferiority Nature One Liner Shame Shy Suspect
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Evil Goodness Philosophy
We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Affection Close Life Live One Liner
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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