Truth comes out in wine.
PLINY THE ELDERSuch is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Home is where the heart is.
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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.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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