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Chance is a second master.

Pliny the Elder

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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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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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