Human nature craves novelty.
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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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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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Chance is a second master.
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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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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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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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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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 brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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