No book so bad but some part may be of use.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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War should neither be feared nor provoked.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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