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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

50 Cent, Pliny the Elder

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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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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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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Not a day without a line.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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 depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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