It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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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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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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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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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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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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