Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERNothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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No one is wise at all times.
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