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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.

Pliny the Elder

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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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It 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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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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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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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In wine there is health.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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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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