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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny the Elder

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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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 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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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No one is wise at all times.
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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.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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