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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Pliny the Elder

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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Eat Food Garden Hunger Refreshment Smell Taste
Home is where the heart is.
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Heart Home One Liner
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
No one is wise at all times.
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Attempt Hope Life One Liner Patience Positive Task Time Try Wisdom Wise
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Sad Time Wine
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
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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Better Disease Evil Heath Improve Men Vino Water Wine
No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Bad Book Knowledge Life May Success Use
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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Adaptation Adopt Causes Grab Moral Opportunity Selfish
Truth comes out in wine.
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Better Disease Evil Food Heath Improve Relax Reveal Sad Time Truth Wine
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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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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Bird Light Silence
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Doe First Impossible Inspire Mission Success
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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Compare Emotion Former Frustate
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Death Goodness Human Life Short
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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Blood Brain Donate Emotion Perception Relation
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Creature Entirely Found Nature Nowhere Small Smallest Tiny

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