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.
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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Not a day without a line.
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In wine there is health.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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