True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
PLINY THE ELDERThe best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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