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.
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.
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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.
All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another.
Human nature craves novelty.
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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.
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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