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The only certainty is uncertainty

Pliny the Elder

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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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