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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Pliny the Elder

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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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 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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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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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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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