Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDERLet that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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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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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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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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In wine there is health.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.
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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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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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