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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny the Elder

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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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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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