A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERNature 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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No one is wise at all times.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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