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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.

Pliny the Elder

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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Affection Close Life Live One Liner
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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