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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Death Evil God Himself Life Man
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Birth Deep Emotion Grant Happy Laughter Men Soul Zeal
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
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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Deserve Feel Happy Name Nature Doubt Parent Suffer
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Certain Philosophy Unknown
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Bad Book Goodness Literature
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Complex Difference Envy Frustrate Inferior Passion Result
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Alone Certain Fix Garden Recover Remain Stir Temporary
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Belief Emotion Entertain Number Purpose Relation Touch Trust
We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Affection Close Life Live One Liner
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
Truth comes out in wine.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Reveal Sad Time Truth Wine
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Home is where the heart is.
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