Human nature craves novelty.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Not a day without a line.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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Chance is a second master.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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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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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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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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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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