No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDERWe ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Not a day without a line.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Chance is a second master.
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