Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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In wine there is health.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Truth comes out in wine.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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