Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDERA 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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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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