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Human nature craves novelty.

Pliny the Elder

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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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
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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Death Evil God Himself Life Man
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Business Lost Men Suicide Weak Work
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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Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Man Natural Novelty Yearn
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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Act Aware Ego Knowledge Rude Science Selfish
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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Accident Discover Found Life Risk Trival Valuable
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Collection Hard Time Sick Time
The only certainty is uncertainty
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Certain Decision Making Dream One Liner Uncertainty
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Audacity Bold Challenge Learn Men Nature
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Alone Earth Move Remain
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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Eat Food Garden Hunger Refreshment Smell Taste
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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Deity Kind Laughter Man Power Regard Toy Worth
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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Believe Desire God Hope Lust Men Wish
Truth comes out in wine.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Reveal Sad Time Truth Wine

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