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• With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
• The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
• Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
• The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its…
• Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
• There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
• When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
• The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has…
• His only fault is that he has no fault.
• The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
• The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them…
• The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of…

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