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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.

Pliny the Elder

In wine there is health.
PLINY THE ELDER

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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Birth Deep Emotion Grant Happy Laughter Men Soul Zeal
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Alone Earth Move Remain
From the end spring new beginnings.
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Beginning Inspirational One Liner Spring
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Advice Buyer Deep Disagree Judgment Query Reflection Think
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Enjoy Equal Evil Good Happy Life Nature
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
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
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
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
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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Blood Brain Donate Emotion Perception Relation
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Bad Conscience Emotion Fame Men Name
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
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
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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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

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