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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.
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.
Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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.
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.
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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.
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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.
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.