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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.

Pliny the Elder

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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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 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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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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