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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Pliny the Elder

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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 generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking 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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Home is where the heart is.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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.
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