A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERIt 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies 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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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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