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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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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 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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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