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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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 thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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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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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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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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