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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.

Pliny the Elder

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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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 javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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