A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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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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The happier the moment the shorter.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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