Human nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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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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In wine there is health.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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