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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

Pliny the Elder

Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Fond Human Nature Novelty One Liner
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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Enjoy Equal Evil Good Happy Life Nature
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Bird Light Silence
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Better Common Disease Evil Heath Improve Vino Wine
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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Country Friendship Generous Man Myself
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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Blood Brain Donate Emotion Perception Relation
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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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Citizen Class Courage Hard Work Life Men Soldier Success
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Emotion Exercise Improvement Land Patience Positive Seed
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Birth Doe Expression Life Men Naked Nude
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Better Cooking Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Vino Wine
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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Act Aware Ego Knowledge Rude Science Selfish
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Equality Irony One Liner Reality
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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Beautiful Gravity Human Pleasure World
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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Deserve Feel Happy Name Nature Doubt Parent Suffer
Truth comes out in wine.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Reveal Sad Time Truth Wine

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

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