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- They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
- Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.
- Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent…
- Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
- For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and…
- Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the…
- The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life,…
- Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug…
- At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,…
- I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly…
- Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks,…
- ...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were…
- You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off…
- Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
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