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

Pliny the Elder

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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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