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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Pliny the Elder

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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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 happier the moment the shorter.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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