The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDERIt 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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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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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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