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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.

Pliny the Elder

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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 most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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 best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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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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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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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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