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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

Pliny the Elder

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Adversity Men Misfortune Nature Possible Privilege Sympathy
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Sad Time Wine
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Country Friendship Generous Man Myself
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Custom Goal Hands Life Manner Master Overcoming Practice Project Pursuit Teach Unique
Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Deep Men Nature Positive Possible Privilege Suicide Sympathy
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
Home is where the heart is.
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Heart Home One Liner
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Believe Math Odd Power Solve Strong Trust
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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Citizen Class Courage Hard Work Life Men Soldier Success
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Ability Brave Country Military Powerful Protect Sacrifice
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Evil Goodness Philosophy
Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Adversity Courage Creativity Fear Grief Happen Overcome
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Enjoy Equal Evil Good Happy Life Nature

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

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