Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERSuch is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine 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.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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