The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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No one is wise at all times.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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