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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

Pliny the Elder

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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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In wine there is health.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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