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No one is wise at all times.

Pliny the Elder

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Emotion Exercise Improvement Land Patience Positive Seed
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Custom Goal Hands Life Manner Master Overcoming Practice Project Pursuit Teach Unique
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Body Enemy Foe Lust Mind Person Purse Weakness
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Man Weep
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Eath Enemy Kind Men Mother
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Alone Earth Move Remain
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Man Natural Novelty Yearn
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Better Common Disease Evil Heath Improve Vino Wine
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDER

Health One Liner Wine
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Sad Time Wine
Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Affair Corporate Great Human Affair Individual Pay Respect Ridiculous
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Bad Book Knowledge Life May Success Use

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