Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
PLINY THE ELDERWar should neither be feared nor provoked.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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