"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
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"Nothing is so unequal as equality."
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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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"How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?"
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"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."
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"There is always something new out of Africa."
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"When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it."
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"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."
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"No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity."
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"Truth comes out in wine."
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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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"Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour."
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"Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the gentler fire of the ruby, there is the rich purple of the amethyst, there is the sea-green of the emerald, and all shining together in an indescribable union. Others, by an excessive heightening of their hues equal all the colours of the painter, others the flame of burning brimstone, or of a fire quickened by oil."
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"There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it."
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"Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life."
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"His only fault is that he has no fault."
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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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"Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man."
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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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"....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle."
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