Not a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDERExample is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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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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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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