We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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 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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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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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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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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In wine there is health.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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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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