Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDERThe 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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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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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