Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERTruth comes out in wine.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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In wine there is health.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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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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