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

Pliny the Elder

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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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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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Chance is a second master.
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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