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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

Pliny the Elder

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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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