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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 Elder

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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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