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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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