The only certainty is uncertainty
PLINY THE ELDERThe happier the moment the shorter.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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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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