His only fault is that he has no fault.
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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Human nature craves novelty.
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In wine, there’s truth.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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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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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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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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 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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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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