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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Pliny the Elder

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In wine there is health.
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Chance is a second master.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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