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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

Pliny the Elder

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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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