Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERLust 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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Chance is a second master.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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