Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDERThe desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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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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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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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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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Not a day without a line.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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