No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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In wine there is health.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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