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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

Pliny the Elder

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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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The only certainty is uncertainty
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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