Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDER
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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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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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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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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