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Hope is a working-man's dream.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
Caius Plinius Secundus
Gaius P. Secundus
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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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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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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