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Hope is a working-man's dream.
Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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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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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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