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.
PLINY THE ELDERNo one is wise at all times.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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No one is wise at all times.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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