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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Pliny the Elder

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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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