Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
PLINY THE ELDERThe happier the moment the shorter.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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In wine there is health.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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