It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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 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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Truth comes out in wine.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Chance is a second master.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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