A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERThe javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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