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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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