Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDER
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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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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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It 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.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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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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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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