Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
PLINY THE ELDERAmid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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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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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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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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