Indeed amazing, but I feel like you often need to know what you are looking for.
I also loved Pratchett, but to be honest I stopped reading after about 10 books or so into the series. It's too random and the novelty and wit wears off rather quickly.
by Richard Burton.
I'm a sucker for 15th/16th/17th Century scientific literature.
Now go and brag of thy happiness, whosoever thou art, brag of thy temperature, of thy good parts, insult, triumph and boast; thou seest in what brittle state thou art, how soon thou mayest be dejected, how many several ways, by bad diet, bad air, a small loss, a little sorrow or discontent, an ague, etc.; how many sudden accidents may procure thy ruin, what a small tenure of happiness thou hast in this life, how weak and silly a creature thou art.
Germany hath not so many drunkards, England tobacconists, France dancers, Holland mariners, als Italy alone hath jealous husbands.
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. A good vomit, I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
To conclude with Chrysostom: "When thou seest a fair and beautiful person, a brave Bonaroba, a bella donna, a comely woman, having bright eyes, a merry countenance, a shining lustre in her look, a pleasant grace, wringing thy soul, and increasing thy concupiscence; bethink with thyself that it is but earth thou lovest, a mere excrement, which so vexeth thee, that thou so admirest, and thy raging soul will be at rest. Take her skin from her face, and thou shalt see all loathsomeness under it, that beauty is a superficial skin and bones, nerves, sinews: suppose her sick, now riveled, hoary-headed, hollow-cheeked, old; within she is full of filthy phlegm, stinking, putrid, excremental stuff: snot and snivel in her nostrils, spittle in her mouth, water in her eyes, what filth in her brains," etc
He that will avoid trouble must avoid the world
Thou canst not think worse of me than I do myself