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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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No one is wise at all times.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Not a day without a line.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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