Not a day without a line.
PLINY THE ELDERAs land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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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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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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