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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Chance is a second master.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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 only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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