When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
PLINY THE ELDERWe listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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In wine there is health.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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