Man naturally yearns for novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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