It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Pliny the Elder in Natural History
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