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.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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