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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.

Pliny the Elder

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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Deserve Feel Happy Name Nature Doubt Parent Suffer
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Brain Future Intellect One Liner Perception Strong
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Eat Food Garden Hunger Refreshment Smell Taste
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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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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Doe First Impossible Inspire Mission Success
Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Fond Human Nature Novelty One Liner
The happier the moment the shorter.
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Deep Happiness Happy Moment One Liner Short Tiem Family
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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Act Aware Ego Knowledge Rude Science Selfish
No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Diamond Gold Men Opportunity Shine Struggle
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
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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Compare Emotion Former Frustate
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
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Charming Deep Happiness Hear Men Novelty Positive Wish
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Creature Entirely Found Nature Nowhere Small Smallest Tiny
In wine there is health.
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Health One Liner Wine

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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