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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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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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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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