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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

Pliny the Elder

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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Adaptation Adopt Causes Grab Moral Opportunity Selfish
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Country Friendship Generous Man Myself

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