Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
PLINY THE ELDERWine 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.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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 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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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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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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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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