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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

Pliny the Elder

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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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