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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Pliny the Elder

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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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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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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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