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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

Pliny the Elder

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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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