It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
PLINY THE ELDERAmid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Home is where the heart is.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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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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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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