Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDERAmong these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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