The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDERNature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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In wine there is health.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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Chance is a second master.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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