The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.
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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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Human nature craves novelty.
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There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
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It 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.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
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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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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
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