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.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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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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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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