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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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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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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Chance is a second master.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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