Human nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERNow, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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