The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
PLINY THE ELDERIn comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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