Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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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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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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