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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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 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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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