"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."
"Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life."
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Source: Historia Naturalis, VII. 51. 3 in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.
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