The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDERTrue glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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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 depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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