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Chance is a second master.

Pliny the Elder

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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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In wine there is health.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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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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