It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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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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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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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.
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Home is where the heart is.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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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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There is always something new out of Africa.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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