The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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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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