A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERHow many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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.
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In wine there is health.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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