Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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Better do nothing than do ill.
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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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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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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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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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