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.
PLINY THE ELDERAlways act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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