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Our civilization depends largely on paper.

Pliny the Elder

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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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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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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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In wine there is health.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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