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.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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