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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Pliny the Elder

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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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Truth comes out in wine.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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