Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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Chance is a second master.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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