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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Pliny the Elder

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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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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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