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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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