There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
PLINY THE ELDERSuicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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Human nature craves novelty.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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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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The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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