The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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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.
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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.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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In wine there is health.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Not a day without a line.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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