Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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In wine, there’s truth.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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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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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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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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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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