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

Pliny the Elder

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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Chance is a second master.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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