We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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As 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.
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