Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
PLINY THE ELDERAs 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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