Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLINY THE ELDERThe desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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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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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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