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Chance is a second master.

Pliny the Elder

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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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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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Not a day without a line.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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