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No one is wise at all times.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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Gaius P. Secundus
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.
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...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black those of Breotia are more red than black and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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