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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

Pliny the Elder

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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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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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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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