It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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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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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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