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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny the Elder

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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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