Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
PLINY THE ELDERThe javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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No one is wise at all times.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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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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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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