Danh ngôn của Pliny the Elder
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Còn gì hỗn loạn hơn biển với những cơn gió, những cơn lốc xoáy và những cơn bão tố? Tuy nhiên, ở khía cạnh nào trong các tác phẩm của mình, Thiên nhiên đã được sự khéo léo của con người ủng hộ nhiều hơn ở khía cạnh này, bởi những phát minh về cánh buồm và mái chèo?
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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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- Home is where the heart is.
- From the end spring new beginnings.
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- The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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- Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
- Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
- To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.