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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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In wine there is health.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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