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

Pliny the Elder

Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Diamond Gold Men Opportunity Shine Struggle
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Deep Men Nature Positive Possible Privilege Suicide Sympathy
The happier the moment the shorter.
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Deep Happiness Happy Moment One Liner Short Tiem Family
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Adversity Courage Creativity Fear Grief Happen Overcome
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Alcohol Drink Kind Mood One Liner Pleasant Swing Wine
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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Custom Goal Hands Life Manner Master Overcoming Practice Project Pursuit Teach Unique
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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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In wine there is health.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Evil Goodness Philosophy
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Classic Dream Hope Luck Men Pillar Vintage Walk
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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Birth Doe Expression Life Men Naked Nude
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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Country Fruit General Good Name Peach Season Touching
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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